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Gracile Lizardfish
Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Also calledAnoli grêle, Poisson-lézard (fra) · Madaraeso (jpn) · Poisson-lézard (fra) · Poisson-lézard gracile (fra) · anoli grêle (fra) · lagarto grácil (spa) · mo'o'anae, mo'o miti (tah) · マダラエソ (jpn) · 小蜥魚 (zho) · 汕狗母 (zho) · 海狗母梭 (zho) · 狗母 (zho) · 狗母梭 (zho) · 番狗母 (zho)
First described in: Quoy, Jean R. C. & Joseph P. Gaimard in Quoy, Jean R. C. & Joseph P. Gaimard. 1824. : 185-232.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Found solitary on sand or silt bottoms near protected reefs, 1 – 135 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 in Albatross Passage, southwestern Kavieng District at 3 – 13 m depth, St. KD 83, 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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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Saurida gracilis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5962529.