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Sphaeramia nematoptera
Description
Sphaeramia nematoptera (Bleeker 1856) —Pyjama cardinalfish (Fig. 61)
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on USNM 394277 (25) from Nusa Island, Kavieng District; a specimen observed at Anelaua Island, New Hanover, 2–16 m depth, St. T 22, on 6 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Caroline Islands and Fiji, north to Yaeyama Islands, south to northern Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Aggregating among branching corals, often Porites, in coral-rich areas of sheltered bays and lagoons, 1–14 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 139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bleeker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Apogonidae
- Genus
- Sphaeramia
- Species
- nematoptera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphaeramia nematoptera (Bleeker, 1856) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019