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
360
journal article
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Hipposcarus longiceps
(Valenciennes in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840
)
—Pacific longnose parrotfish
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on specimens observed by
Jeff Kinch
during CFMDP
Survey
at
Kavieng
fish market in
2004–2005
, and by
Barry C. Russell
during
7–28 June 2014
; previously misidentified as
Scarus harid
(non
Forsskål in Niebuhr
, 1775) from
Tigak Islands
,
Kavieng
by
Wright & Richards (1985
: 73); a video of a specimen taken off
southern New Hanover
at
3–47 m
depth,
St. KR
106, in 2014 (identified by
Barry C. Russell
).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution: Cocos-Keeling Islands (eastern Indian Ocean) and
Indonesia
east to Marshall, Line and Tuamotu islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern
Australia
and
New Caledonia
. In groups over sand in lagoon and seaward coral reefs,
0–40 m
depth. Marine.