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Petroscirtes breviceps
Description
Petroscirtes breviceps (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836) —Shorthead fangblenny (Fig. 123)
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 27 May 2007.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northwestern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coastal and lagoon reefs, often hiding in empty worm tubes or shells, 0–10 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 260, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Petroscirtes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes
- Species
- breviceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Petroscirtes breviceps (in, 1836) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. & Valenciennes, A. (1836) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome onzieme. Livre treizieme. De la famille des Mugiloides. Livre quatorzieme. De la famille des Gobioides. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xx + 506 + 2 pp., pls. 307 - 343. [Author: Valenciennes.]