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Acanthurus guttatus Forster in Bloch & Schneider 1801
Description
Acanthurus guttatus Forster in Bloch & Schneider 1801 —White-spotted surgeonfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen observed on the north coast of Kavieng District, 2–24 m depth, St. T 7, on 1 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen; also observed at Nemto Island, New Hanover, 4–15 m depth, St. T 23, on 7 Nov. 2006.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Mascarenes, Maldives and Chagos Archipelago east to Hawaiian Islands, Marquesas Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia, Australia and Rapa. Found in the surge zone of exposed rocky shores, 0–4 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 299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2006-11-07
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Acanthurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Forster in Bloch & Schneider
- Species
- guttatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2006-11-07
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acanthurus guttatus in, 1801 sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019