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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAulopiformes
  4. ›familySynodontidae
  5. ›genusSynodus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Largeeye Lizardfish

Synodus oculeus Cressey, 1981

Also calledIrezumiomeso (jpn) · ještěrohlavec očkatý (ces) · イレズミオオメエソ (jpn)

First described in: Cressey, R.F. (1981). Revision of Indo- West Pacific lizardfishes of the genus Synodus (Pisces: Synodontidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 342:1-53.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1. — General distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to eastern Australia and New Caledonia. Found on sand or sand-rubble areas of the lower continental and insular shelf and upper slope, 44 – 335 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 from New Hanover, based on a NTUM material (2 specimens, St. CP 4418 - 22 - 23, northeast of New Hanover).

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 5212665.