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Torquigener hypselogeneion
Description
Torquigener hypselogeneion (Bleeker 1852) —Orange-spotted toadfish
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Hanover by Günther (1910: 474). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District at 6 m depth by Dean Tully on 26 June 2013; a video of a specimen taken in Steffen Channel, Kavieng District, St. KR 34, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell). BMNH material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East and South Africa east to Samoa, north to southern Japan. Found on shallow coastal sand flats and in estuaries, 1–22 m depth. Transitional water, 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 335, 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
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Torquigener
- Species
- hypselogeneion
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Torquigener hypselogeneion (Bleeker, 1852) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Gunther, A. C. L. G. (1910) Andrew Garrett's Fische der Sudsee. Band III, Heft IX. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg, 6 (17), i-vi + 389 - 515, pls. 161 - 180.