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Pomacentrus amboinensis Bleeker 1868

Description

Pomacentrus amboinensis Bleeker 1868 — Ambon damselfish

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Kavieng, New Ireland as Pomacentrus dimidiatus by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 66), based on ZMH 11976. A specimen was photographed at Kavieng on 2 June 2013, second dive, during ACIAR Aquarium Survey; a video of a specimen taken at Alexander Passage, off southeastern New Hanover, at 5– 14 m depth, St. KR 96, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell). KFRS material.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Caroline Islands and New Guinea, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Coral reefs, 1–40 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 pages 218-219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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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.