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Naso tonganus
Description
Naso tonganus (Valenciennes [ex Quoy & Gaimard] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835)—Bulbnose unicornfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen observed at Nusalomon Island, Kavieng District, 1–24 m depth, St. T1, on 30 Oct. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Found in seaward reefs, 3–20 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 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Naso
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes
- Species
- tonganus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Naso tonganus (Valenciennes, 1835) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. & Valenciennes, A. (1835) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dixieme. Suite du livre neuvieme. Scomberoides. Livre dixieme. De la famille des Teuthyes. Livre onzieme. De la famille des Taenioides. Livre douzieme. Des Atherines. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xxiv + 482 + 2 pp., pls. 280 - 306. [Author: Valenciennes.]