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Rhinecanthus aculeatus

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Description

Rhinecanthus aculeatus (Linnaeus 1758) —Blackpatch triggerfish

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Carteret Harbour, New Ireland as Balistes aculeatus by Peters (1877: 852). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District by Dietmar Amon on 20 Feb. 2010.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 3.—General distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Senegal, South Africa; Indo-West Pacific: East and South Africa, Mozambique Channel, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Australia and Lord Howe Island. Found on reef flats or in coral reef lagoons, 0–50 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 323-324, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E8146FEE4EDFCC9AD1A6B0F61

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/1577035E8146FEE4EDFCC9AD1A6B0F61 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/157230018 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/26780/taxon/1577035E8146FEE4EDFCC9AD1A6B0F61.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Balistidae
Genus
Rhinecanthus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
aculeatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhinecanthus aculeatus (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.