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Nebrius ferrugineus
Description
Nebrius ferrugineus (Lesson 1831) — Tawny nurse shark
Status at New Ireland. Originally described from Port Praslin, New Ireland as Scyllium ferrugineum by Lesson (1831: 95), reported as Ginglymostoma mülleri by Günther (1910: 487–488). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District by Dean Tully.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 3.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to Taiwan, south to to northern Australia. Coral or coral reefs, seagrass beds, or sand-rubble flats, 2–70 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 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ginglymostomatidae
- Genus
- Nebrius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orectolobiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesson
- Species
- ferrugineus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nebrius ferrugineus (Lesson, 1831) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Lesson, R. P. (1831) Poissons. In: Duperrey, L. I. (ed.), Foyage autour du monde, ..., sur la corvette de La Majeste La Coquille, pendant les annees 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825..., Zoologie tome 2. Paris. (Pt. 1, text): 66 - 238; Atlas (1832): pls. 1 - 38.
- Gunther, A. C. L. G. (1910) Andrew Garrett's Fische der Sudsee. Band III, Heft IX. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg, 6 (17), i-vi + 389 - 515, pls. 161 - 180.