Pictichromis paccagnellorum
Description
Pictichromis paccagnellorum (Axelrod 1973) —Royal dottyback (Fig. 60)
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 4 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 15); others photographed at St. KVG18 (south side of Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 18 Aug. 2014; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Central Indonesia east to Solomon Islands, south to northwestern Australia. Found in coastal or seaward reefs, 5–40 m depth. Marine.
Remarks. This species was previously named Pictochromis paccagnellae; the name should be paccagnellorum as it was named after the Paccagnella family (see Axelrod 1973).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pseudochromidae
- Genus
- Pictichromis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Axelrod
- Species
- paccagnellorum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pictichromis paccagnellorum (Axelrod, 1973) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Axelrod, H. R. (1973) A colorful beauty from the coral reefs of Indonesia. Tropical Fish Hobbyist, 21 (8), 5 - 6, 9 - 10.
- Teitelbaum, A., Nahacky, A. & Kinch, J. (2013) A commercial survey of aquarium fish species in the Kavieng Lagoon, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Report, James Cook University, Townsville, 1 - 21.