Published April 23, 2019 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Amphiprion perideraion Bleeker 1855

Description

Amphiprion perideraion Bleeker 1855 —Pink anemonefish

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from St. Mathias as Amphiprion rosenbergi by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 68), based on ZMH 11944. Specimens photographed in Kavieng region on 3–4 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 14); specimens photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng region by Dietmar Amon; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, 3–25 m depth, St. KR90, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 4.—General distribution: Cocos-Keeling Islands (eastern Indian Ocean) and Indonesia east to Caroline and Tuamotu islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in lagoons and on seaward reef slopes, commensal with sea anemones, 1–38 m depth. Transitional water and 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 207, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

Files

Files (1.3 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:e66eb3b452d6449d8b5e0bb059caedb3
1.3 kB Download

System files (8.0 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:0681880ad94e00c025e9c26f2a1972a1
8.0 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

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.