Melichthys niger
date: label: Collection Date
content: 5 Mar 1974
name: label: Collector
content: Victor G. Springer
label: Collector
content: Dr. Martin F. Gomon
label: Expedition
content: Indonesia Collection
label: Ocean/Sea/Gulf
content: South Pacific Ocean, Haria Bay
notes: label: Notes
content: Not family Monacanthidae or Melichthys radula. (this catalog number was originally assigned to a specimen of Springeratus xanthosoma that has since been reaccessioned by the original donor, California Academy of Sciences, as CAS 24740. see our accession file number 377010).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 May 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Indonesia, Saparua, Southeast Tip of Haria Bay., Maluku, Indonesia, South Pacific Ocean
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Fishes
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Melichthys niger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes Division
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 308017
label: USNM Number
content: 290475
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii, Neopterygii, Acanthopterygii, Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontoidei, Balistidae
physicalDescription: label: Depth (m)
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