Lutjanus bohar
Description
Lutjanus bohar (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) —Red snapper
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Hanover and Ningin Island, New Ireland as Lutjanus coatesi by Munro (1958: 188); subsequently reported from Tigak Islands, Kavieng by Wright & Richards (1985: 73), and from Lihir Group, Namatamai District by Fry et al. (2006: 129). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005, and by Barry C. Russell during 7–28 June 2014. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 8 Apr. 2008.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3, 4.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to off northwestern Australia, Lord Howe and Austral islands. Coral reefs, including lagoons, 0–100 m depth. Marine.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Forsskal in Niebuhr
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
- Species
- bohar
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lutjanus bohar (in, 1775) 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.