Greyback Damsel
Chrysiptera caesifrons Allen, Erdmann & Kurniasih, 2015
Also calledDamisel·la d'esquena grisa (cat) · Demoiselle à front bleu-gris (fra) · Donzela-de-dorso-cinzento (por)
First described in: Allen, G. R.; Erdmann, M. V.; Kurniasih, E. M. (2015). Chrysiptera caesifrons, a new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae) from the south-western Pacific Ocean. <em>Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation.</em> 15: 16-32.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Halmahera (eastern Indonesia) east to Vanuatu, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Found on inshore rocky substrates, 1 – 6 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. Recorded from New Ireland in original description by Allen et al. (2015: 24). The species was previously known from Papua New Guinea as Chrysiptera rex (non Snyder, 1909); a video of a specimen taken at Tungelo Island, off southeastern New Hanover, at 3 – 46 m depth, St. KR 104, 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
In the stacks
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Every page naming Chrysiptera caesifrons in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8844420.