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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journal article
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Chlorurus japanensis
(Bloch 1789)
—Japanese parrotfish (
Fig. 113
)
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on a specimen photographed at
Lissenung Island
,
Kavieng District
at
7 m
depth by
Dean Tully
on
24 Sept. 2015
; a video of a specimen taken off
southern New Hanover
, at
4–51 m
depth,
St. KR
110, in 2014 (identified by
Barry C. Russell
).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa and western Mascarenes east to
Tonga
, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to
Queensland
(
Australia
) and
New Caledonia
. Found on seaward coral and rocky reefs, usually on inner reefs with rich coral habitat,
1–20 m
depth. Marine.