White-freckled surgeonfish
Acanthurus maculiceps (Ahl, 1923)
Also calledCirurgião-de-rosto-estrelado (por) · Debam (msa) · Debam bintik putih (msa) · Dengkis (msa) · Gebang (msa) · Indangan (tgl) · Irezuminiza (jpn) · Labahita (tgl) · Peix cirurgià cara estelada (cat) · Pesce chirurgo faccia stellata (ita) · Pez Cirujano de Pecas Blancas (spa) · Weißfleck-Doktorfisch (deu) · bodlok skvrnohlavý (ces) · イレズミニザ (jpn)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Maldives east to Line Islands and Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland (Australia). Found in seaward coral reefs, 1 – 30 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 observed at Kavieng fish market by Barry C. Russell on 7 and 28 June 2014; a video of a specimen taken in Senta Pass, east of New Hanover at 5 – 12 m depth, St. KR 114, 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
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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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5209257.