Cephalopholis sonnerati

Colour Vibrant reddish brown with numerous whitish spots on body; whitish network like patterns present on head

Sumber: First occurrence report of three rare Serranid fishes from northern part of east coast of India and a new record from West Bengal coast, India

Distribution Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Socotra, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to Japan, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia (Froese and Pauly, 2022). From Indian coast this species was reported from Andaman and Nicobar Island (Dhandapani and Mishra, 1998; Rao et al., 2000; Rajan et al., 2017), Odisha (Behera et al., 2015), Andhra Pradesh (Kandula et al., 2015), Tamil Nadu (Mishra and Krishnan, 2003; Anrose et al., 2007; Ramesh et al., 2008; Sluka and Lazarus, 2010; Barman et al., 2011), Kerala (Bineesh et al., 2014; Basheer et al., 2017), Karnataka (Sluka and Lazarus, 2010) and Lakshadweep (Jones and Kumaran, 1959; Jones, 1969; Jones and Kumaran, 1980). Present study reports this species from West Bengal coast for the first time which indicates of its distribution throughout the east cost of India.

Sumber: First occurrence report of three rare Serranid fishes from northern part of east coast of India and a new record from West Bengal coast, India

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: East Africa east to Line Islands and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Found in lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 10 – 150 m depth. Marine.

Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records