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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Acanthurus xanthopterus
Valenciennes in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835
—Yellowfin surgeonfish
Status at
New Ireland
.
First recorded from Tigak Islands, Kavieng,
New Ireland
by
Wright & Richards (1985
: 73), and from Lihir Group, Namatamai District by
Fry
et al
. (2006
: 129); specimens observed at Kavieng fish market in
2004–2005
by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey, and by Barry C. Russell during
7–28 June 2014
. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District,
5 m
depth, by Dean Tully on
6 July 2011
; a video of a specimen taken at Kawauiliaka Island, off northeastern New Hanover, at
3–12 m
depth, St. KR132, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2, 5.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and
South Africa
,
Madagascar
and Mascarenes east to
Panama
, north to southern
Japan
and Ogasawara Islands, south to
Queensland
(
Australia
) and
New Caledonia
. Found in various coral reef habitats, sand slopes and lagoons,
0–100 m
depth. Marine.