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Blackfinned Clownfish
Amphiprion percula (Lacepède, 1802)
Also calledEchter Clownfisch (deu) · Gombing (msa) · Inggu (msa) · Orangegul klovnfisk (dan) · Peix pallasso percula (cat) · Peixe-palhaço-percula (por) · Pesce pagliaccio orientale (ita) · Pez Payaso del Este (spa) · Poisson-clown du Pacifique (fra) · Rombin (msa) · Trauerband-Anemonenfisch (deu) · błazenek ukwiałowy (pol) · klaun zdobený (ces) · Оранжевый амфиприон (rus)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3, 4. — General distribution: New Guinea east to Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in coastal reefs, lagoons and seaward coral reefs, commensal with sea anemones, 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. Originally described as Lutjanus percula from Port Praslin, New Ireland by Lacepède (1802: 194, 239 – 240); reported from New Ireland by Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes (1830 a: 397 – 398), based on MNHN material, from Port Praslin, New Ireland as Amphiprion tunicatus by Lesson (1831: 192 – 194, poissons pl. 25, fig. 3), and from St. Mathias and Kavieng, New Ireland by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 68). A specimen photographed in Kavieng region on 5 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey (Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 9, 14); specimens photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng region by Dietmar Amon; a video of a specimen taken at Anelaua Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3 – 16 m depth, St. KR 98, 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
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5212094.