Threespot angelfish
Apolemichthys trimaculatus (Cuvier, 1831)
Also calledBunak (tgl) · Dreipunkt-Rauchkaiserfisch (deu) · Gombing (msa) · Lebre três manchas (por) · Mameng (tgl) · Papillon jaune (fra) · Peix àngel de llavi porpra (cat) · Peixe-anjo-de-três-pintas (por) · Pesce angelo a tre macchie (ita) · Pesce angelo tricolore (ita) · Poisson ange à trois taches (fra) · Poisson-ange trois taches (fra) · Poisson-ange trois taches, Poisson-ange à trois taches (fra) · Poisson-ange à trois taches (fra)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 1 and 3 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 14); a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, 3 – 25 m depth, St. KR 90, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: East Africa, Seychelles and Mascarenes east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Solitary or in pairs, in lagoon and seaward coral or rocky reef habitats, 2 – 60 m depth. Marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Introduced species vector dispersal
Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Pathway/vector Other (Ornamental Trade)
World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2396564.
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