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Heniochus acuminatus

Description

Heniochus acuminatus (Linnaeus 1758) —Longfin bannerfish

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Hanover as Heniochus macrolepidotus by Peters (1877: 833). Specimens photographed in Kavieng region on 2 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey. Specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 6 July 2010, another at St. KVG 17 on the Bismarck Sea side of northern Kavieng District by Serge Andréfouët on 18 Aug. 2014.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Wake and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe, Tonga and Austral islands. Found in deep, protected lagoons and channels, and seaward coral or rocky reef slopes, 2–178 m depth. 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 191, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ACIAR
Event date
2010-07-06 , 2014-08-18
Family
Chaetodontidae
Genus
Heniochus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
acuminatus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2010-07-06 , 2014-08-18
Taxonomic concept label
Heniochus acuminatus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019

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.