Caesio lunaris Ehrenberg & Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830

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 : 159

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.5580927

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-809A-FF39-EDFC-CEBE18610F89

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Plazi

scientific name

Caesio lunaris Ehrenberg & Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830
status

 

Caesio lunaris Ehrenberg & Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830 View in CoL —Lunar fusilier

Status at New Ireland. Originally described from New Ireland by Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes (1830b: 441– 442), based on MNHN 9560 (1 syntype); also reported from Port Praslin , New Ireland by Lesson (1831: 186–187, poissons pl. 34). Specimens observed at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005 by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey; a video of a specimen taken off Nubilus Island , off southeastern New Hanover , at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3.—General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Marshall Islands and Fiji, north to southern Japan, south to off northwestern Australia and New Caledonia. Forming large aggregations at the outer edge of seaward reefs or around patch reefs, 0–50 m depth. Marine.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Caesionidae

Genus

Caesio

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