Yellowfin Surgeonfish

description

Common name: Yellowfin Surgeonfish 1835. Acanthurus xanthopterus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dixième. Suite du livreneuvième. Scombéroïdes. Livredixième. De la famille des Teuthyes. Livreonzième. De la famille des Taenioïdes. Livredouzième. Des Athérines. v. 10: i-xxiv + 1 - 482 + 2 pp., Pls. 280 - 306. Material examined: Two specimens; SL 189 – 244 mm; location: Digha Mohana, collection date: July 21, 2018 (MARC / ZSI / F 8356); Chandipur, collection date: June 14, 2013 (MARC / ZSI / F 3045). Diagnostic characters: D: IX + 26, A: II + 25, P: I + 14, LL: P, GR: 17 - 19. Body oblong, compressed (Fig. 1), its depth 2.12 – 2.19 in SL. Head profile convex, head length 0.26 in SL. Mouth terminal, eye diameter 0.23 – 0.25 in HL; interorbital space convex and 0.21 – 0.34 in HL. Violet grey coloration with a yellow stain on the eyes and snout; distal part of the pectoral fins yellow. High and compressed body. A folding spine on both sides of the caudal peduncle. Pelvic fin rays I, 4. Long and high dorsal and anal fins. Mouth small, teeth fixed and in a single row. Colour: Body blue grey with irregular dark grey lines vertically; a dull yellow area behind

First report on the occurrence of two marine ornamental fishes (Acanthuriformes) from Northern part of the Bay of Bengal, India

description

Purple Surgeonfish, Yellowfin Surgeonfish, or Yellow-masked Surgeon. To 70 cm (27.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002); Palos Verdes, southern California (Bill Power, pers. comm. to M. L.); Gulf of California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including tip of Baja California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Koeda et al. 2016); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 148 m (3 – 485 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

distribution

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 5. — General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Panama, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in various coral reef habitats, sand slopes and lagoons, 0 – 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 Tigak Islands, Kavieng, New Ireland by Wright & Richards (1985: 73), and from Lihir Group, Namatamai District by Fry et al. (2006: 129); specimens observed at Kavieng fish market in 2004 – 2005 by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey, and by Barry C. Russell during 7 – 28 June 2014. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 5 m depth, by Dean Tully on 6 July 2011; a video of a specimen taken at Kawauiliaka Island, off northeastern New Hanover, at 3 – 12 m depth, St. KR 132, 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