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CAS-ICH 34472 Paracheilinus mccoskeri   [Catalog of Fishes] PARATYPE ID by/date  RANDALL & HARMELIN-VIVIEN Labridae
Counts (Alc/Skel/CS) 8/0/0 Prep Type - Preservative alc-75% EtOH Other/Previous Number Size 24.0-56.9 mm SL
Collector; Vessel McCosker, John E.  Field Number JEM 75-26 Date Collected 26 Feb 1975 : 1000-1200
Continent/Ocean Indian Ocean Country Comoros State Grande Comore County
Water Body Drainage Island Group Comoro Is. Island Grande Comore I.
Depth Width Salinity Gear pronoxfish (contains rotenone)
Locality North of Moroni; reef and Padina bed in front of Said Ibrahim's Palace; 150 meters offshore
Latitude-Longitude -11.674681°, 43.260857°; uncertainty: 313 m (Source: FishNet Collaborative Georeferencing Project) Bottom Type sloping bottom
Acc. Number 1975-III:13 Specimen Remarks Publ.: 1977, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Zool. (306):332, fig. 2.
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