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Distributional records for Chlidichthys cacatuoides (open circles), C. chagosensis (descending triangles), C. inornatus (ascending triangles), C. pembae (closed circles), C. rubiceps (closed squares) and C. smithae (open square).
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Chlidichthys Smith includes the following 13 species: C. abruptus Lubbock (St Brandon"s Shoals); C. auratus Lubbock (Red Sea); C. bibulus (Smith) (east coast of Africa, Aldabra and Socotra); C. cacatuoides Gill & Randall (Socotra and southern Oman); C. chagosensis new species (Chagos Archipelago); C. clibanarius new species (Comoro Ids, Madagascar...
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... AND DISTRIBUTION: This species is known only from the Chagos Archipelago (Fig. 5). Winterbottom et al. (1989: 28) recorded it (misidentified as C. inornatus) from lagoon, drop-off, reef-top, reef-flat and intertidal reefs in 0-40 m. However, they noted that the species was most abundant in lagoons and dropoffs in 6-25 m, with such habitats accounting for 87% of 635 specimens ...
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... AND DISTRIBUTION: Chlidichthys pembae is known only from the east coast of Africa, from Pemba Id, Tanzania, south to Aliwal Shoal, South Africa, and the Comoro Ids (Fig. 5). It has been collected from reefs at depths ranging from 3-27 ...
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... Dottyback Fig. 5 DIAGNOSIS: A species of Chlidichthys with the following combination of characters: predorsal scales extending to supratemporal commissure; suborbital pores 6-7, rarely 7; sensory canal of infraorbital 1 continuous with adjacent infraorbital (infraorbital 3); dorsal-fin rays II,22- 24, usually II,23; gill-rakers 3-6 + 11-13 = 14-19; and ...
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... found throughout the Red Sea, from the Gulf of Aqaba south to the Karaman Archipelago (Fig. 5). It has been collected and observed (Lubbock, 1975) from reefs at depths ranging from 4.5-40 ...
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