Balistapus undulatus
Description
Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) —Orange-lined triggerfish
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland and New Hanover by Peters (1877: 852); reported from St. Mathias as Balistes undulatus by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 76), from St. George Canal, New Ireland by Munro (1958: 287–288), and from Lihir Group, Namatamai District by Fry et al. (2006: 129). A specimen photographed on 4 June 2013 in Kavieng region during ACIAR Aquarium Survey. ZMH material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Line, Marquesas and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to New Caledonia. Found in coral-rich areas of seaward reefs, 1–50 m depth. Marine.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Park
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Balistidae
- Genus
- Balistapus
- Species
- undulatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balistapus undulatus (Park, 1797) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Peters, W. C. H. (1877) Ubersicht der wahrend der von 1874 bis 1876 unter der Commando des Hrn. Capitan z. S. Freiherrn von Schleinitz ausgefuhrten Reise S. M. S. Gazelle gesammelten und von der Kaiserlichen Admiralitat der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften ubersandten Fische. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preuss [ischen] Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876, 831 - 854.
- Duncker, G. & Mohr, E. (1929) Die Fische der Sudsee-Expedition der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Stiftung 1908 - 1909. 3. Teil. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg, 44, 57 - 84.
- 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.
- Fry, G. C., Brewer, D. T. & Venables, W. N. (2006) Vulnerability of deepwater demersal fishes to commercial fishing: Evidence from a study around a tropical volcanic seamount in Papua New Guinea. Fisheries Research, 81, 126 - 141.