Pomacanthus xanthometopon
Description
Pomacanthus xanthometopon (Bleeker 1853) —Yellow-mask angelfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed on 2 June 2013, first dive, during ACIAR Aquarium Survey at Kavieng (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 14, as P. xanthometapon); a specimen observed at Kavieng fish market by Barry C. Russell on 14 June 2014. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 22 Aug. 2008; a video of a specimen taken on east side of Tsoileunung Island, southeast of New Hanover, at 6–21 m depth, St. KR 124, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.— Maldives and Chagos Archipelago east to Philippines and Vanuatu, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coral-rich areas of coral reefs, 5–30 m depth. Marine.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bleeker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Pomacanthus
- Species
- xanthometopon
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pomacanthus xanthometopon (Bleeker, 1853) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Teitelbaum, A., Nahacky, A. & Kinch, J. (2013) A commercial survey of aquarium fish species in the Kavieng Lagoon, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Report, James Cook University, Townsville, 1 - 21.