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Sphaeramia orbicularis

Description

Sphaeramia orbicularis (Cuvier [ex Kuhl & Hasselt] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828)—Orbicular

cardinalfish

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from St. Mathias as Apogon orbicularis by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 58), based on ZMH 11967.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 4.—General distribution: Southern Red Sea and East Africa east to Caroline Islands and Tonga, north to Yaeyama Islands, south to New Caledonia. Lives in aggregations in mangrove habitats, 0–5 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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References

  • Duncker, G. & Mohr, E. (1929) Die Fische der Sudsee-Expedition der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Stiftung 1908 - 1909. 3. Teil. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg, 44, 57 - 84.