Lobotidae

Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, Zootaxa 3832 (1), pp. 1-247 : 90

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BAB612A4-03DB-4958-BEB1-92DE278FBB90

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6129604

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6A5BAE7A-DA4E-FFD5-3AAA-FCB99EEEFB74

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Plazi

scientific name

Lobotidae
status

 

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Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790) —Atlantic tripletail

STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang by Kailola (1975: 140). AMS, KFRS and WAM material. DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Mediterranean Sea, tropical and warm temperate waters of Atlantic Ocean, southwestern Indian Ocean, southern Japan, New Guinea and New Caledonia to Tuvalu. Adults found in bays, muddy estuaries and lower reaches of large rivers; offshore often floating near the surface in the company of floating objects, occasionally drifting over reefs; juveniles may occur in floating Sargassum and mimic a floating leaf, 0– 2 m. Freshwater, transitional water and marine.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Lobotidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Lobotidae

Genus

Lobotes

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