Forcipiger flavissimus Jordan & McGregor 1898
Description
Forcipiger flavissimus Jordan & McGregor in Jordan & Evermann 1898—Forcepsfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed at St. KVG24 (off northwestern Bauddisson Island) by Serge Andréfouët on 22 Aug. 2014; a video of a specimen taken off southern New Hanover at 4–51 m depth, St. KR 110, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to tropical eastern Pacific, north to southern Japan and Hawaiian Islands, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Kermadec Islands and Rapa; eastern Pacific: Gulf of California to Galapagos Archipelago. Found on coastal and seaward coral reefs, 2– 114 m depth. Marine.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Forcipiger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & McGregor
- Species
- flavissimus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Forcipiger flavissimus Jordan, 1898 sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019