Clouded Damselfish
Amblyglyphidodon curacao (Bloch, 1787)
Also calledDamigella offuscata (ita) · Damisel·la de tres barres (cat) · Demoiselle des cornes de cerf (fra) · Donzela-de-três-faixas (por) · Geweihkorallen-Riffbarsch (deu) · Kurakaosuzumedai (jpn) · sapínek curacao (ces) · Поперечнополосая рыба-ласточка (rus) · ปลาตะกรับเขียว (tha) · クラカオスズメダイ (jpn) · 厚殼仔 (zho) · 库拉索凹牙豆娘鱼 (zho) · 庫拉索凹牙豆娘魚 (zho) · 橘鈍寬刻齒雀鯛 (zho)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 4. — General distribution: Cocos-Keeling and Christmas islands (eastern Indian Ocean) east to Marshall Islands and Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Found in lagoons, passes and slopes of seaward coral reefs, among branches of staghorn Acropora corals, 1 – 15 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. First recorded from St. Mathias as Glyphidodon trifasciatus by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 67); reported from Kavieng, New Ireland by Kailola (1975: 165). KFRS and ZMH material. A specimen photographed in Kavieng region on 3 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 6 m depth, by Dean Tully on 15 Sept. 2012; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3 – 32 m depth, St. KR 88, 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
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2398488.
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