Aulostomidae

Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, Zootaxa 3832 (1), pp. 1-247 : 48

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BAB612A4-03DB-4958-BEB1-92DE278FBB90
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6129550
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6A5BAE7A-DA38-FFA3-3AAA-FB9B9FD4FABD
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Aulostomidae
status

Treatment

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Aulostomus chinensis (Linné, 1766) —Chinese trumpetfish

STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang by Munro (1958: 140). Specimens observed and photographed at St. CTR 20, CTR 31, CTR 34. KFRS material.

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. South and East Africa east to Panama, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara, Hawaiian, Johnston and Easter islands, south to Western Australia at 31°52'S, Lord Howe and Kermadec islands, and Rapa. Found in coral and rocky reefs, at depths of 2– 122 m. Marine.