Published April 23, 2019
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Macropharyngodon meleagris
Description
Macropharyngodon meleagris (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1839) —Vermiculated wrasse
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 2–3 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey at Kavieng (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 15); a video of a specimen taken in Senta Pass, east of New Hanover at 5–12 m depth, St. KR 114, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Cocos-Keeling and Christmas islands (eastern Indian Ocean) and Indonesia east to Line and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia and Lord Howe Island. Solitary or in small groups, on coral rubble bottom near coral reefs, 0–30 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 234, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Macropharyngodon
- Species
- meleagris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macropharyngodon meleagris (in, 1839) 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.