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Petroscirtes xestus Jordan & Seale 1906
Description
Petroscirtes xestus Jordan & Seale 1906—Smooth fangblenny
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 26 Aug. 2008 and 24 May 2009; another specimen photographed at St. KVG19 (Bagail Bay, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 19 Aug. 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Micronesia, Line Islands and Samoa, north to Philippines, south to northern Australia. Found on sand or in seagrass habitats, 1–5 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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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2014-08-19
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-08-19
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Seale
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Petroscirtes
- Species
- xestus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Petroscirtes xestus Jordan, 1906 sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019