Blue-spotted Demoiselle

description

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen in a video of a specimen taken at Manne Island, Kavieng District, 3 – 25 m depth, St. KR 42, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Anelaua Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3 – 16 m depth, St. KR 98, in 2014.

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: Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, south to Australia and to Solomon Islands. Forming aggregations above silty bottom of lagoon and inshore reefs, 5 – 12 m depth. Marine. Neopomacentrus nemurus (Bleeker 1857) — Coral demoiselle

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: Indonesia east to Palau and Papua New Guinea, south to Solomon Islands. Forming aggregations in silty lagoons and near coastal reefs, 1 – 10 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 Anelaua Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3 – 16 m depth, St. KR 98, in 2014.

Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records