First record of a unicornfish, Naso tergus (Perciformes: Acanthuridae), from the Philippines

First record of a unicornfish, Naso tergus (Perciformes: Acanthuridae), from the Philippines

A single specimen of Naso tergus Ho, Shen and Chang, 2011 (Acanthuridae), having previously been known only from Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan, was collected off Iloilo Province (Panay Island), the Philippines. The present specimen represents the first record of N. tergus from the Ph...

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Veröffentlicht in:Kagoshima Daigaku Suisan Gakubu Kiyo = Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University Kagoshima University, 2013-01, Vol.62, p.7-10
Hauptverfasser: Matsunuma, Mizuki, Tashiro, Satokuni, Alama, Ulysses-B, Motomura, Hiroyuki
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Geographical distribution
Marine
Morphology
Naso tergus
New records
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Zusammenfassung:A single specimen of Naso tergus Ho, Shen and Chang, 2011 (Acanthuridae), having previously been known only from Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan, was collected off Iloilo Province (Panay Island), the Philippines. The present specimen represents the first record of N. tergus from the Philippines and the southernmost record for the species. It suggests that N. tergus is widely distributed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The present specimen is described in detail and morphological variations of the species are mentioned.
ISSN:0453-087X