Lutjanus gibbus
Description
Lutjanus gibbus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) —Paddletail snapper, humpback snapper
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Carteret Harbour, Lambom, New Ireland by Peters (1877: 831); reported from Drei Inseln Harbour, New Hanover by Munro (1958: 190), and from Port Sulphur, New Ireland by Kailola (1975: 131); 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. Specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 31 Dec. 2006. KFRS material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3, 5.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Adults found in coral reefs, juveniles in seagrass beds or mixed sand and coral habitats, 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
- gibbus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lutjanus gibbus (in, 1775) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Peters, W. C. H. (1877) Ubersicht der wahrend der von 1874 bis 1876 unter der Commando des Hrn. Capitan z. S. Freiherrn von Schleinitz ausgefuhrten Reise S. M. S. Gazelle gesammelten und von der Kaiserlichen Admiralitat der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften ubersandten Fische. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preuss [ischen] Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876, 831 - 854.
- 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.
- Kailola, P. J. (1975) A catalogue of the fish reference collection at the Kanudi Fisheries Research Laboratory, Port Moresby. Department of Agriculture, Stock & Fisheries, Port Moresby, Research Bulletin, 16, 1 - 277.
- 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.