Pseudodax moluccanus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840 )

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 237

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5581602

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-80E8-FF4B-EDFC-CB76186108C1

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Plazi

scientific name

Pseudodax moluccanus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840 )
status

 

Pseudodax moluccanus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840) View in CoL —Chiseltooth wrasse

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland by Allen & Erdmann (2012: 714). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island , Kavieng District , 16 m depth, by Dean Tully on 25 Sept. 2015; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa and KwaZulu-Natal ( South Africa), Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Marquesas and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to New Caledonia and Tonga. Found in clear channels and seaward coral reefs; juveniles common along drop-offs; adults usually near caves while juveniles frequently live inside them, 3–60 m depth. Marine.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Labridae

Genus

Pseudodax

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