Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Author
Andréfouët, Serge
Author
Chen, Wei-Jen
Author
Kinch, Jeff
Author
Mana, Ralph
Author
Russell, Barry C.
Author
Tully, Dean
Author
White, William T.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
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1
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journal article
26780
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Centropyge fisheri
(Snyder 1904)
—White-tail pygmy angelfish
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on photographs taken on
3 June 2013
, first dive, during ACIAR
Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District
; a video of a specimen taken on east side of
Tsoileunung Island
, southeast of
New Hanover
, at
6–21 m
depth,
St. KR
124, in 2014 (identified by
Barry C. Russell
).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Hawaiian, Marquesas and Tuamotu islands, north to southern
Japan
, south to
Queensland
(
Australia
) and
New Caledonia
. Solitary or in aggregations, in coral rubble areas of lagoons, passages and slopes of seaward coral reefs,
10–95 m
depth. Marine.