Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Andréfouët, Serge
Chen, Wei-Jen
Kinch, Jeff
Mana, Ralph
Russell, Barry C.
Tully, Dean
White, William T.
Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
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1
360
4LQBL
Bleeker 1853
Bleeker
1853
[151,615,548,573]
Actinopterygii
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Animalia
Perciformes
218
219
Chordata
species
bankanensis
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on photograph taken on 1 June 2013during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; a video of a specimen taken at Alexander Passage, off southeastern New Hanover, at 5–14 mdepth, St. KR96, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Christmas Island(eastern Indian Ocean) east to Yap( Caroline Islands) and Fiji, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australiaand New Caledonia. Found in coastal, lagoon and seaward reefs, 0–32 mdepth. Marine.