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Whitespotted garden eel
Gorgasia maculata Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959
Also calledHétérocongre pointillé (fra) · Hvidplettet koloniål (dan)
First described in: Klausewitz, W.; Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. (1959). Neue Röhrenaale von den Maldiven und Nikobaren (Pisces, Apodes, Heterocongridae). <em>Senckenbergiana Biologica.</em> 40 (3/4): 135-153.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: Maldives east to Philippines and Solomon Islands. Found on sand bottoms, 15 – 48 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 at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 1 Jan. 2010, and at St. KVG 14 in Kavieng District by Serge Andréfouët on 16 Aug. 2014.
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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Every page naming Gorgasia maculata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2403066.