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Asterorhombus intermedius
Description
Asterorhombus intermedius (Bleeker 1865) —Intermediate flounder
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Kulineua River, New Hanover by Munro (1958: 283); record confirmed by Hensley (2005: 455). NTUM 11455 (1 specimen, 38.9 mm SL, St. KZ20, southwest of Edmago Island, Kavieng District, 02°37.053’S 150°44.214’E, 5–6 m depth, 25 June 2014), and NTUM 11457 (1 specimen, 21.0 mm SL, St. KR24, south of Nago Island, Kavieng District, 02°36.325’S 150°46.182’E, 4–15 m depth, sand bottom, 5 June 2014).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Seychelles and Maldives east to Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found on sand bottoms, 1–96 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 pages 314-315, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bleeker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Family
- Bothidae
- Genus
- Asterorhombus
- Species
- intermedius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Asterorhombus intermedius (Bleeker, 1865) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Munro, I. S. R. (1958) The fishes of the New Guinea region. Fishery Bulletin, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1, 97 - 369.
- Hensley, D. A. (2005) Revision of the genus Asterorhombus (Pleuronectiformes: Bothidae). Copeia, 2005 (3), 445 - 460.