Orangefin Anemonefish
Amphiprion chrysopterus Cuvier, 1830
Also called'atoti (tah) · Orangefinnet klovnfisk (dan) · Orangeflossen-Anemonenfisch (deu) · Peix pallasso polinesi (cat) · Peixe-palhaço-polinésio (por) · Pesce pagliaccio pinna arancione (ita) · Pez payaso de aletas doradas (spa) · Poisson-Clown à nageoires jaunes (fra) · Poisson-clown (fra) · klaun oranžovoploutvý (ces) · Тропический амфиприон (rus)
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: Eastern Indonesia east to Caroline and Tuamotu islands, north to Philippines, south to New Caledonia. Found in lagoons and on seaward reef slopes, commensal with sea anemones, 1 – 30 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 specimens photographed on 1 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 14); a video of a specimen taken off southern New Hanover, at 4 – 51 m depth, St. KR 110, 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
Introduced species vector dispersal
Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Pathway/vector Other (Ornamental Trade)
World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5212076.