Elagatis bipinnulata
Description
Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard 1825) —Rainbow runner
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Feni Island, New Ireland as Elagatis bipinnulatus by Munro (1958: 179); subsequently reported as E. bipinnulatus from Tigak Islands, Kavieng by Wright & Richards (1985: 73), and from Lihir Group, Namatamai District by Fry et al. (2006: 129). Specimens observed at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005 by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey, and by Barry C. Russell on 28 June 2014; a video of a specimen taken at Martha's Shoal, off eastern New Hanover, at 7–41 m depth, St. KR122, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 5.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, in western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan, south to northern New Zealand. Found near coral or rocky reefs, 0–150 m depth. Marine.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Quoy & Gaimard
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Elagatis
- Species
- bipinnulata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy, 1825) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Munro, I. S. R. (1958) The fishes of the New Guinea region. Fishery Bulletin, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1, 97 - 369.
- Wright, A. & Richards, A. H. (1985) A multispecies fishery associated with coral reefs in the Tigak Islands, Papua New Guinea. Asian Marine Biology, 2, 69 - 84.
- Fry, G. C., Brewer, D. T. & Venables, W. N. (2006) Vulnerability of deepwater demersal fishes to commercial fishing: Evidence from a study around a tropical volcanic seamount in Papua New Guinea. Fisheries Research, 81, 126 - 141.