Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces): Fishes Checklist

Ronald Fricke; Michel Kulbicki; Laurent Wantiez

doi:10.25607/fq9y4b

Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces): Fishes Checklist

Citation

Fricke R, Kulbicki M, Wantiez L, Earl C (2023). Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces): Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/fq9y4b accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-11.

Description

A checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia is presented. A total of 2328 species in 246 families have been recorded from the region. Eight of these species are not native, but have been introduced. Five fish families are represented only by introduced species. The native fish fauna of New Caledonia therefore consists of 2320 species in 241 families. The largest families are the Gobiidae, Labridae, Pomacentridae, Serranidae, Apogonidae, Blenniidae, Macrouridae, Myctophidae and Muraenidae. The freshwater fish fauna is dominated by the families Gobiidae, Eleotridae, Anguillidae and Mugilidae. A total of 61 species represent new records from New Caledonia.

Purpose

These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.

Sampling Description

Method steps

See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Fishes

Agnatha
rank: Superclass
Chondrichthyes
rank: unranked
Osteichthyes
rank: unranked

Geographic Coverages

New Caledonia

Bibliographic Citations

Fricke, Ronald & Kulbicki, Michel & Wantiez, Laurent. (2011). Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A Neue Serie. 4. 341-463. -

Contacts

Ronald Fricke
originator

Michel Kulbicki
originator

Laurent Wantiez
originator

Chandra Earl
metadata author
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

Chandra Earl
processor
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

OBIS Secretariat
administrative point of contact
position: Secretariat
OBIS
email: helpdesk@obis.org