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scaly chromis
Chromis lepidolepis Bleeker, 1877
Also calledササスズメダイ (jpn)
First described in: Bleeker, Pieter. 1877. Description de quelques espèces inédites de Pomacentroïdes de l’Inde archipélagique. Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Natuurkunde 10: 384-391.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, Comores and Mauritius (Mascarenes) east to Marshall Islands, Line Islands, Fiji and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in coastal, lagoon and seaward reefs, 2 – 20 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 a video of a specimen taken off Nusa Island, Kavieng District, 2 – 18 m depth, St. KR 32, 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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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5212158.