Whitetail Damsel
Pomacentrus chrysurus Cuvier, 1830
Also calledCastagnola labbra bianche (ita) · Damigella labbra bianche (ita) · Damisel·la de les Ryūkyū (cat) · Damita de cola blanca (spa) · Demoiselle à queue blanche (fra) · Donzela-burguesa (por) · Guru (fij) · Ojiro-suzumedai (jpn) · Ojirosuzumedai (jpn) · Ustniczek bialopregi (pol) · sapín běloocasý (ces) · ปลาสลิดหินหางขาว (tha) · オジロスズメダイ (jpn) · 厚殼仔 (zho)
First described in: Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1830). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome cinquième. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. v. 5: i-xxviii + 1-499 + 4 pp., Pls. 100-140. [Cuvier authored volume. i-xx + 1-374 in Strasbourg edition.].
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Maldives and Sri Lanka east to Palau and Papua New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found on inshore rocky and coral outcrops, 0 – 3 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 on north coast of Manne Island, Kavieng District at 1 – 11 m depth, St. KR 36, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3 – 32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2398362.