Purple Flying-gurnard
Dactyloptena orientalis (Cuvier, 1829)
Also calledAlón Oriental (spa) · Dactyloptère (fra) · Falso-voador-do-Indo-Pacífico (por) · Grondin Volant Etoilé (fra) · Grondin Volant Oriental (fra) · Grondin Volant Rouge (fra) · Grondin volant étoilé (fra) · Grondin volant, Grondin volant étoilé (fra) · Helm-Flughahn (deu) · Orientalsk flyveknurhane (dan) · Poisson volant (fra) · Semihobo (jpn) · apa apa au ai, marara one, marara 'ute'ute (tah) · letucha východní (ces)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: South and East Africa to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia, Tonga and Rapa. Benthic, on sandy substrates adjacent to coral reefs, 1 – 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. New record from Papua New Guinea, based on NTUM 11257 (1 specimen, St. CP 4459 - 16, 8.5 km westnorthwest of Kavieng). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 10 June 2009, and at 8 m depth by Dean Tully on 20 Sept. 2015.
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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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2333592.