Cinnabar goatfish

distribution

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 5. — General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia and Lord Howe Island. Found over muddy, sandy, rubble, or seagrass bottoms of lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 12 – 100 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. First recorded from New Ireland by Randall (2004: 30); subsequently reported from Lihir Group, Namatamai District, New Ireland by Fry et al. (2006: 130). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004 – 2005; a video of a specimen taken from Senta Passage, off eastern New Hanover, 5 – 16 m depth, at St. KR 118, 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

description

(Figs. 2 – 5; Table 2) Sciaena heptacantha Lacepède, 1802 (type locality not given) Upeneus cinnabarinus Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1829

Redescription and new records of Jansen’s goatfish, Parupeneus jansenii (Mullidae), from the Western Pacific and Eastern Indian Ocean

description

Parupeneus jansenii differs from P. heptacanthus - independently of size - in shallower body and caudal peduncle, smaller maximum head depth, shorter barbels, caudal and pelvic fins, shallower first dorsal fin, shallower first ray of second dorsal fin, and lack of small dark red or reddish-brown spot on or just below the eighth lateral-line scale; furthermore, small-sized P. jansenii differs in shorter second dorsal-fin base, shallower anal fin, shorter pelvic-fin spine, and shorter pectoral fins; and large-sized P. jansenii differs in shallower head depth through eye and longer anal-fin base. Regarding meristic characters, Parupeneus jansenii differs from P. heptacanthus statistically with signifcantly fewer pectoral-fin rays, more gill rakers on upper limb, and constantly 27 lateral-line scales in contrast to 27 – 28 scales in the latter species (Figure 5). The currently known maximum size of P. jansenii is 159 mm SL (this study), while P. heptacanthus has been reported to reach a much larger size of 290 mm SL (Randall 2004). Parupeneus jansenii P. heptacanthus P. P. P. P. P. P. angulatus fraserorum minys nansen procerigena seychellensis Small-sizeđ fish Large-sizeđ fish Small-si

Redescription and new records of Jansen’s goatfish, Parupeneus jansenii (Mullidae), from the Western Pacific and Eastern Indian Ocean