Yellow-Banded Perchlet, Chelidoperca flavolineata Matsunuma, Tan & Peristiwady 2020

Other Names: Yellow Banded Sea Bass, Yellow-banded Sea-bass

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Bray, D.J. 2025, Chelidoperca flavolineata in Fishes of Australia, accessed 08 Jul 2026, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/5672

Yellow-Banded Perchlet, Chelidoperca flavolineata Matsunuma, Tan & Peristiwady 2020

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Distribution	North of the Dampier Archipelago, Northwest Shelf, Western Australia, to the Arafura Sea, north of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory. Elsewhere the species occurs off the south coast of Java, Indonesia.
Etymology	The specific name is from Latin flavus (= yellow) and linea (= line), in reference to the characteristic yellow longitudinal stripe of the species.
Species Citation	Chelidoperca flavolineata Matsunuma, Tan & Peristiwady 2020, Ichthyological Research 67(2): 309, figs 1-3a-d, 4, 6. Type locality: off Java, Indonesia [08°09.1'S, 109°08.1' - 10.1'E].
Author	Bray, D.J. 2025
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Yellow-Banded Perchlet, Chelidoperca flavolineata Matsunuma, Tan & Peristiwady 2020

References

Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 2022. Trawled fishes of southern Indonesia and northwestern Australia. 2nd ed. Self published: i-vii, 1-422, Pls. 1-3. See ref online

Matsunuma, M., Tan, H.H. & Peristiwady, T. 2020. Chelidoperca flavolineata, a new species of perchlet (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Indonesia and the first Indonesian record of C. maculicauda, Ichthyological Research 67: 308-319. . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-019-00729-2

Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. (as Chelidoperca sp. 2)