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Myripristis hexagona
Description
Myripristis hexagona (Lacepède 1802) —Doubletooth soldierfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken in Steffen Strait, western Kavieng District at 3–18 m depth, St. KR68, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: South and East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Samoa and Tonga, north to Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in sheltered areas of offshore reefs, 3–40 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 pages 81-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Holocentridae
- Genus
- Myripristis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beryciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lacepede
- Species
- hexagona
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myripristis hexagona (Lacepede, 1802) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Lacepede, B. G. E. (1802) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatrieme. Plassan, Paris, xliv + 728 pp, pls. 1 - 16. [Year given as " l'an X de la republique. "]