Pygoplites diacanthus
Description
Pygoplites diacanthus (Boddaert 1772) —Regal angelfish (Fig. 96)
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from St. Mathias as Holacanthus diacanthus by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 73), based on ZMH 11737-11738. Specimens photographed in Kavieng region on 1, 3 and 4 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 14). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 10 m depth, by Dean Tully on 24 June 2013, another at St. KVG 17 (Bismarck Sea side of northern Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 18 Aug. 2014, and photographed at St. KVG25 (off southeastern New Hanover) by Serge Andréfouët on 22 Aug. 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 4.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Line and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Solitary or in pairs, in lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 1–48 m depth. Marine.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ACIAR
- Event date
- 2013-06-24 , 2014-08-18 , 2014-08-22
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-06-24 , 2014-08-18 , 2014-08-22
- Scientific name authorship
- Boddaert
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Pygoplites
- Species
- diacanthus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pygoplites diacanthus (Boddaert, 1772) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Duncker, G. & Mohr, E. (1929) Die Fische der Sudsee-Expedition der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Stiftung 1908 - 1909. 3. Teil. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg, 44, 57 - 84.
- 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.