Gerres oblongus 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 : 161

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5580951
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scientific name	Gerres oblongus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830
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Gerres oblongus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830 View in CoL —Slender silverbiddy

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Kulineua River, New Hanover by Munro (1958: 198).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1.—General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East and South Africa east to Philippines and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to Queensland ( Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Adults on shallow soft bottoms adjacent to coral reefs, 0–10 m depth. Marine.