Dascyllus melanurus Bleeker 1854

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 : 215

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.5581360

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-80D2-FF71-EDFC-CA351AD60B4C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Dascyllus melanurus Bleeker 1854
status

 

Dascyllus melanurus Bleeker 1854 View in CoL —Blacktail dascyllus

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Kavieng, New Ireland by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 67), based on ZMH 11931; record confirmed by Kailola (1975: 169). Specimens photogtraphed in Kavieng area in June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 14), and at St. KVGPMT50 (southeast of New Hanover) by Serge Andréfouët on 24 Aug. 2014. KFRS, NTUM, USNM and ZMH material.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Central Indonesia east to Marshall Islands and Vanuatu, north to Philippines, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found among branching corals in sheltered inshore coral reefs and lagoons, 1–68 m depth. Marine.

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF