Siganus fuscescens (Houttuyn 1782)

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 : 297

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5582183

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-812C-FE8F-EDFC-CBE31C1B08C7

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Plazi

scientific name

Siganus fuscescens (Houttuyn 1782)
status

 

Siganus fuscescens (Houttuyn 1782) View in CoL —Mottled spinefoot

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005; a specimen observed at Balang Island , New Hanover , 0–18 m depth, St. T 21, on 6 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Pohnpei ( Federated States of Micronesia) and Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan and Korea, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in algae and seagrass flats in lagoons and near coastal reefs, 2–50 m depth. Marine.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Siganidae

Genus

Siganus

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