Smith's Damsel
Pomacentrus smithi Fowler & Bean, 1928
Also calledCastagnola di Smith (ita) · Damigella di Smith (ita) · Damisel·la d'esquena verda (cat) · Damita de Smith (spa) · Donzela-do-norte (por) · sapín Smithův (ces)
First described in: Fowler, H. W.; Bean, B. A. (1928). Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions. The fishes of the families Pomacentridae, Labridae, and Callyodontidae, collected by the ... steamer "Albatross," chiefly in Philippine seas and adjacent waters. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 100, v. 7: i-viii + 1-525, Pls. 1-49.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Indonesia east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Found in fringing reefs and offshore patch reefs, 2 – 14 m depth. 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. New record, based on 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); another taken in Albatross Passage, southwestern Kavieng District, 3 – 13 m depth, St. KD 83, in 2014.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
The following specimens of Pomacentrus smithi were utilised for comparison: WAM P. 30807 - 002, 3, 33.0 - 53.2 mm SL, Pulau Seribu, Java Sea, Indonesia; WAM P. 30810 - 005, 5, 30.4 - 47.5 mm SL, Pulau Seribu, Java Sea, Indonesia; WAM P. 29714 - 001, 5, 13.2 - 23.4 mm SL, Flores, Indonesia.
Pomacentrus aurifrons, a new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae) from Melanesia.
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2398309.