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Gerres erythrourus

Description

Gerres erythrourus (Bloch 1791) —Deep-bodied mojarra

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Matalanaua River, New Hanover as Gerres abbreviatus by Munro (1958: 199). Specimens observed at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005 by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey, and by Barry C. Russell during 7–28 June 2014.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: India east to Caroline Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Adults on shallow soft bottoms adjacent to coral reefs, also entering lower reaches of rivers and streams, juveniles in estuaries, 1–40 m depth. Freshwater, transitional water and marine.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CFMDP
Event date
2014-06-07
Family
Gerreidae
Genus
Gerres
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Bloch
Species
erythrourus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2014-06-07/28
Taxonomic concept label
Gerres erythrourus (Bloch, 1791) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019

References

  • Munro, I. S. R. (1958) The fishes of the New Guinea region. Fishery Bulletin, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1, 97 - 369.