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
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360
4F2TP
Lesson 1831
Lesson
1831
[151,565,1015,1040]
Actinopterygii
Gobiidae
Periophthalmus
Animalia
Perciformes
286
287
Chordata
species
kalolo
Status at New Ireland.Originally described in part from Port Praslin, New Irelandby Lesson (1831: 146–147); reported as P. koelreuteri(non Pallas 1770) by Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes (1837: 181).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 3.—General distribution: Southern Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascarand western Mascarenes east to Fijiand Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland( Australia). Amphibious air-breather that spends most of its time out of the water; able to meet its oxygen requirements as long as it stays wet; typically resting on mud, or rocks, with their tails dipped in the water, 0–1 mdepth. Transitional water and marine.