Drepane punctata (Linnaeus 1758)

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 : 181

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scientific name	Drepane punctata (Linnaeus 1758)
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Drepane punctata (Linnaeus 1758) View in CoL —Threadfin butterflyfish

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland by Peters (1877: 833).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 0.—General distribution: India east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Found on sand or mud bottoms, reefs, estuaries, also near coral or rocky reefs, 5–49 m depth. Transitional water and marine.

References

Peters, W. C. H. (1877) Ubersicht der wahrend der von 1874 bis 1876 unter der Commando des Hrn. Capitan z. S. Freiherrn von Schleinitz ausgefuhrten Reise S. M. S. Gazelle gesammelten und von der Kaiserlichen Admiralitat der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften ubersandten Fische. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preuss [ischen] Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876, 831 - 854.