Ecosystem Summary - Pycnochromis nigrurus
Pycnochromis nigrurus in Red Sea
 
Reference no. Golani, D. and S. V. Bogorodsky, 2010
Ecosystem Red Sea
Status misidentification
Abundance
Lifestage adults
Regional database
Remarks This Indo-Pacific species does not occur in the Red Sea (Allen & Randall, 1980; Allen, 1991). Allen & Randall (1980) assumed that Dor's (1970) single record was based on a misidentification of C. weberi or C. ternatensis. Native in Ref. 12541.
(e.g. oophagy)
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