Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Andréfouët, Serge
Chen, Wei-Jen
Kinch, Jeff
Mana, Ralph
Russell, Barry C.
Tully, Dean
White, William T.
Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
1
1
360
745Y7
(Linnaeus 1758)
Linnaeus
1758
[151,545,1700,1725]
Actinopterygii
Carangidae
Naucrates
Animalia
Perciformes
146
147
Chordata
species
ductor
Status at New Ireland.First recorded from New Irelandas Naucrates indicusby Lesson (1831: 157, poissons pl. 14, fig. 2), based on MNHN A.5398 ( holotype); reported as N. ductorby Munro (1958: 185).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 0.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas, in western Pacific Ocean north to Japan, south to Norfolk Island. Pelagic, oceanic species with a semiobligate commensal relationship with sharks, rays, larger bony fishes and turtles; juveniles usually associated with jellyfish and drifting seaweed, 0–300 mdepth. Marine.