Images attached to GBIF records (museum & herbarium specimens), from . Open licences; click for the record.
Smoothscale Sweeper
Pempheris leiolepis Randall & Victor, 2015
First described in: Randall, J. E.; Victor, B. C. (2015). Descriptions of thirty-four new species of the fish genus Pempheris (Perciformes: Pempheridae), with a key to the species of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation.</em> 18: 1-77.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
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
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Pempheris leiolepis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8945343.