Malacanthus latovittatus (Lacepède, 1801)

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, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 142-143

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5580737

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-8089-FF29-EDFC-C97F18260F61

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Plazi

scientific name

Malacanthus latovittatus
status

 

Malacanthus latovittatus View in CoL (Lacepède [ex Commerson] 1801)—Blue tilefish

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 9 m depth, by Dean Tully on 7 July 2011; a video of a specimen taken in Senta Pass, east of New Hanover at 5–12 m depth, St. KR 114, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales ( Australia) at 32°26'S, and New Caledonia. Solitary or in pairs, on soft bottoms adjacent to coral reefs on seaward reef slopes, 5– 60 m depth. Marine.

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