Chlorurus spilurus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840 )

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 : 242

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.5581652

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-80F5-FF56-EDFC-CAD019B2082A

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Plazi

scientific name

Chlorurus spilurus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840 )
status

 

Chlorurus spilurus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840) View in CoL —Bullethead parrotfish

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005; a video of a specimen taken off southeastern New Hanover , at 6–21 m depth, St. KR 124, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell). This species was previously known from the western and central Pacific as C. sordidus (non Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island and Rapa. Found on reef flats and lagoon and seaward coral and rocky reefs, as well as along drop-offs; juveniles in coral rubble areas of reef flats and lagoons, 1–50 m depth. Marine.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Scaridae

Genus

Chlorurus

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