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Chlorurus bleekeri

Description

Chlorurus bleekeri (Beaufort in Weber & Beaufort 1940) —Bleeker's parrotfish

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on photograph taken on 1 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; specimens observed at Kavieng fish market by Barry C. Russell during 7–28 June 2014. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 11 Apr. 2008; others photographed at St. KVG18 (south side of Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 18 Aug. 2014; a video of a specimen taken at Echuca Shoal, New Hanover, 15–34 m depth, St. KR 158, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Caroline Islands and Samoa, north to Philippines, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coastal, lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 0–35 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 241, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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  • Weber, M. & Beaufort, L. F. de (1940) The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. FIII. Percomorphi (continued). Cirrhitoidea, Labriformes, Pomacentriformes. Folume 8. E. J. Brill, Leiden, xv + 508 pp. [This volume authored by L. F. de Beaufort.]