Zanclidae

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 : 181

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.6129678

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6A5BAE7A-DAA3-FF38-3AAA-FB26992EF9B7

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Zanclidae
status

 

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Zanclus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Moorish idol

STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on specimens observed and photographed at St. CTR 0 1, CTR 0 3, CTR 0 4, CTR 0 5, CTR 0 6, CTR 0 7, CTR 0 9, CTR 10, CTR 11, CTR 13, CTR 14, CTR 15, CTR 16, CTR 19, CTR 20, CTR 21, CTR 22, CTR 23, CTR 24, CTR 25, CTR 27, CTR 28, CTR 30, CTR 31, CTR 32, CTR 33, CTR 36, and by Tan H. H. at St. PR 43 on 16 Nov. 2012.

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Panama, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe and Kermadec islands, and Rapa. Found in turbid inner lagoons, reef flats, and clear seaward rocky and coral reefs, 1– 182 m. Marine.

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