Published April 23, 2019
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Acanthochromis polyacanthus
Description
Acanthochromis polyacanthus (Bleeker 1855) —Spiny chromis
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed in Kavieng Lagoon in June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 17); a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, 3–25 m depth, St. KR 90, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Eastern Indonesia east to Philippines and Vanuatu, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in inshore and seaward coral reefs, 1–65 m depth. Marine.
Notes
Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Acanthochromis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bleeker
- Species
- polyacanthus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acanthochromis polyacanthus (Bleeker, 1855) 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.