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Fistulariidae

Description

Fistulariidae

Fistularia commersonii Rüppell, 1838 —Red cornetfish, serrate flutemouth

STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang; previously reported as Fistularia villosa (non Klunzinger, 1871) by Duncker & Mohr (1925: 4) and Herre (1933: 12). Specimens photographed at St. CTR 0 7, and by P. Laboute on 4 Dec. 2012. AMS and SU material (AMS I.16746-002, I.16748-002, I.19695-010; SU 28232). DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Red Sea, East and South Africa east to Panama, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern New Zealand; also southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Found above soft bottoms adjacent to coral and rocky reefs, at depths of 1– 128 m. Marine.

Notes

Published as part of Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, pp. 1-247 in Zootaxa 3832 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/250559

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Biodiversity

Family
Fistulariidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Syngnathiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Duncker, G. & Mohr, E. (1925) Die Fische der Sudsee-Expedition der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Stiftung 1908 - 1909. 1. Teil (Fistulariidae, Centriscidae, Syngnathidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg, 41, 93 - 112, pl. 2.
  • Herre, A. W. C. T. (1933) A check list of fishes known from Madang, New Guinea. Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institution, 8 (4), 12.