Inimicus didactylus (Pallas 1769)

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 : 104

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5580403

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-8063-FFC0-EDFC-CD8D1A120AC4

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scientific name

Inimicus didactylus (Pallas 1769)
status

 

Inimicus didactylus (Pallas 1769) View in CoL —Bearded ghoul ( Fig. 44 View FIGURE 44 )

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Port Praslin, New Ireland as Pelor obscurum by Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes (1829b: 4426-437), based on MNHN material; reported by Lesson (1831: 211–212, poissons pl. 21, fig. 2). NTUM material. Specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 16 May 2009 and 24 July 2010.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 3.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Vanuatu, north to southern Japan, south to New Caledonia. Secretive, buried in sand or mud adjacent to coral or rocky reefs including lagoon habitats, 0–80 m depth. Transitional water and marine.

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