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Yellowstriped Fairy Basslet
Pseudanthias tuka (Herre & Montalban, 1927)
Also calledPerche de mer pourpre (fra)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Indonesia east to Philippines and Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Found in groups above seaward reef slopes, 7 – 120 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 specimens photographed on 3 – 5 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 14); a video of a specimen taken off Nubilus Island, off southeastern New Hanover, at 3 – 32 m depth, St. KR 88, 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
distribution
Distribution: southeastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific: Indonesia to Solomon Islands and Australia to Japan.
Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)
materials_examined
Holotype: BSMP (apparently destroyed, Eschmeyer et al., online). Type locality: Maricaban Island, Philippines. Illustrations: Allen & Erdmann, 2012: 302: 3 figs. at bottom; Kuiter, 2004: 76 & 77, figs. A – I. D: X, 15 to 17 (usually 16). A: III, 7 or 8 (usually 7). P: 15 to 17 (usually 16). C: 15 (8 + 7). V: 26 (10 + 16). S: 3. GR: 8 to 10 + 22 to 26. LL: 45 to 49. CP: 23 to 26.
Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)
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
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Every page naming Pseudanthias tuka in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2387643.