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Whitespotted Devil
Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
Also called'atoti (tah) · Demoiselle à points bleus (fra) · ルリホシスズメダイ (jpn)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes to Marshall Islands and Marquesas Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands and southern Japan, south to Australia, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia and Rapa. Found in sheltered inshore reefs, lagoons and seaward coral reefs, 2 – 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. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken off Nusa Island, Kavieng District, 2 – 18 m depth, St. KR 32, 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
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
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2398933.