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Percophidae

Description

Percophidae

Bembrops caudimacula Steindachner, 1876 —Tailspot duckbill

STATUS AT MADANG. New record from Madang, based on a specimen collected by W.-J. Chen, St. CP 3949. NTUM material (NTUM 10055, 10063, 10091).

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Red Sea and Gulf of Aden east to eastern Indonesia and New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found on soft bottoms of the continental slope, 186– 500 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 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/250559

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Percophidae
Taxon rank
family