Lutjanus rivulatus
Description
Lutjanus rivulatus (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828) —Speckled snapper
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Ningin Island, New Ireland 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 on 7–21 June 2014; a specimen photographed at St. KVG 14 in Kavieng District, by Serge Andréfouët on 16 Aug. 2014
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 3, 5.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Palau and Society Islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia, New Caledonia and Tonga. Occasionally encountered in coral reefs or shallow inshore flats; adults on deep coastal slopes, juveniles on shallow algae-reef flats, often near freshwater runoffs, 0–100 m depth. Freshwater, transitional water and marine.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes
- Species
- rivulatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lutjanus rivulatus (in, 1828) 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.