Wetmorella nigropinnata (Seale 1901)

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 : 240

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.5581634
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-80EB-FF48-EDFC-CFBD1A700C1C
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Wetmorella nigropinnata (Seale 1901)
status

Treatment

Wetmorella nigropinnata (Seale 1901) View in CoL —Sharpnose wrasse

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from off Kavieng, New Ireland by Randall (1983: 879–880), based on USNM 236268.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Marshall and Marquesas islands and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland ( Australia) and New Caledonia. Secretive, in coral reefs, 1–30 m depth. Marine.