Pearly Perchlet, Chelidoperca margaritifera Weber 1913


Illustration of the holotype of the Pearly Perchlet, Chelidoperca margaritifera. Source: Fig 53 in Weber, M. 1913. Die Fische der Siboga-Expedition. License: Public Domain


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Bray, D.J. 2019, Chelidoperca margaritifera in Fishes of Australia, accessed 12 Oct 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/3843

Pearly Perchlet, Chelidoperca margaritifera Weber 1913

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Distribution

Coral Sea off the Queensland Plateau to off the Capricorn Group, Queensland.

Species Citation

Chelidoperca margaritifera Weber 1913, Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 57: 207, fig. 53. Type locality: between Misool [Misol] Island and New Guinea, 2°28.5'S, 131°3.3'E, Siboga station 166, depth 118 m.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2019

Resources

Atlas of Living Australia

Pearly Perchlet, Chelidoperca margaritifera Weber 1913

References


Lee, S.-H., Lee, M.-Y., Matsunuma, M. & Chen, W.-J. 2019. Exploring the phylogeny and species diversity of Chelidoperca (Teleostei: Serranidae) from the Western Pacific Ocean by an integrated approach in systematics, with descriptions of three new species and a redescription of C. lecromi Fourmanoir, 1982. Frontiers of Marine Science 6(465): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00465, open access

Matsunuma, M. & Motomura, H. 2016. Chelidoperca stella, a new species of perchlet (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Andaman Sea, eastern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4092(3): 388-400. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4092.3.4

Matsunuma, M., Yamakawa, T. & Williams, J.T. 2017. Chelidoperca tosaensis, a new species of perchlet (Serranidae) from Japan and the Philippines, with geographic range extension of C. stella to the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Ichthyological Research 65(2): 210-230 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-017-0604-5

Weber, M. 1913. Die Fische der Siboga-Expedition. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 57: 1-710 123 figs 12 pls See ref at BHL

Williams, J.T. & Carpenter, K.E. 2015.  A new fish species of the subfamily Serraninae (Perciformes, Serranidae) from the Philippines. Zootaxa 3911(2): 287–293. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3911.2.10

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CAAB Code:37311143

Depth:1-120 m

Habitat:Reef associated

Max Size:5+ cm SL

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