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Hemigymnus melapterus

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Description

Hemigymnus melapterus (Bloch 1791) —Blackeye thicklip wrasse

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Hanover by Peters (1877: 843); specimens observed at Kavieng fish market by Barry C. Russell on 7 and 14 June 2014.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Marshall and Society islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia, Lord Howe Island and Tonga. Found on subtidal reef flats, lagoon and seaward reefs, among branching corals while adults found in areas of mixed sand, rubble, and coral, 0–30 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 pages 231-232, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E80E2FF40EDFCC9BB1AE80F61

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/2988163 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E94E7B268004FFA7ED6BCE29195D0E7C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/1577035E80E2FF40EDFCC9BB1AE80F61 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/157231129 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/26780/taxon/1577035E80E2FF40EDFCC9BB1AE80F61.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Labridae
Genus
Hemigymnus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Bloch
Species
melapterus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hemigymnus melapterus (Bloch, 1791) 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.