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Heniochus monoceros Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831

Description

Heniochus monoceros Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831 —Masked bannerfish

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed at Kavieng fish market by Barry C. Russell on 28 June 2014; a video of a specimen taken at Martha's Shoal, off eastern New Hanover, at 7–41 m depth, St. KR 122, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Marshall Islands and Henderson Island (Pitcairn Group), north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Norfolk and Gambier islands. Found in lagoon and seaward coral reefs with rich coral growth or rocky reefs, 0–30 m depth. Marine.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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  • Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. & Valenciennes, A. (1831) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome septieme. Livre septieme. Des Squamipennes. Livre huitieme. Des poissons a pharyngiens labyrinthiformes. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xix + 5 + 509 pp, pls. 209 - 245. [Cuvier authored pp. 1 - 440, Valenciennes 441 - 531.]