Honey-breast Damsel
Dischistodus prosopotaenia (Bleeker, 1852)
Also calledDamigella miele (ita) · Damisel·la mel (cat) · Dandarasuzumedai (jpn) · Demoiselle miel (fra) · Donzela-mel (por) · útesník medový (ces) · ダンダラスズメダイ (jpn) · 厚殼仔 (zho) · 黑背盘雀鲷 (zho) · 黑背盤雀鯛 (zho)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Eastern Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Philippines and Solomon Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coastal reefs or lagoons with sand and silt bottom, 1 – 12 m depth. Transitional water and marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland by Allen & Erdmann (2012: 600); a video of a specimen taken at Anelaua Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3 – 16 m depth, St. KR 98, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); a specimen observed at Nusa Channel, Kavieng District, 0 – 19 m depth, St. T 2, on 30 Oct. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Dischistodus prosopotaenia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2398200.