New records of fishes from the Coral Sea Marine Park, Australia
Tea, Yi Kai, Sih, Tiffany, Walsh, Fenton, Bennett, Timothy, Rocha, Luiz A., Bardout, Ghislain, Hay, Amanda, Parkinson, Kerryn, Reader, Sally, Riley, Indiana J., Pogonoski, John J., Johnson, Jeffrey W., Moore, Glenn I., Gill, Anthony C., Galbraith, Gemma F., Cresswell, Benjamin J., Hoey, Andrew S., Frable, Benjamin W., Brooke, Brendan P., and Beaman, Robin J. (2025) New records of fishes from the Coral Sea Marine Park, Australia. Coral Reefs, 44 (4). pp. 1227-1273.
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Abstract
With an area covering just under 1 million km<sup>2</sup>, Australia’s Coral Sea Marine Park (CSMP) is among the largest marine protected areas globally. Yet, the demersal deep-reef fish fauna of the CSMP remains poorly described, due in part to its remote location, as well as its sheer size, much of which is inaccessible below conventional SCUBA diving depths. Recent remotely operated vehicle (ROV) explorations conducted by the Schmidt Ocean Institute provided an opportunity to explore the benthic ichthyofauna of deep mesophotic and rariphotic coral ecosystems. Contributions to the deep, demersal ichthyofauna of Australia’s CSMP are herein supplemented with an integrative dataset consisting of ROV imagery and specimen vouchers. Sixty-two new records of fishes from 26 families are reported from the CSMP. Of these, 45 are new Australian records, one of which is also a new family record for Australia. Four species are new records for the Southern Hemisphere, and 21 species are potentially new to science. We report new voucher material for 29 species, including several species previously identified as new for the CSMP with no voucher specimens.
| Item ID: | 87887 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1432-0975 |
| Keywords: | Bathyal, Ichthyology, Mesophotic, Natural history collections, New species, Rariphotic |
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| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2025 23:33 |
| FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3103 Ecology > 310305 Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology) @ 20% 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3104 Evolutionary biology > 310402 Biogeography and phylogeography @ 50% 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3104 Evolutionary biology > 310401 Animal systematics and taxonomy @ 30% |
| SEO Codes: | 18 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT > 1805 Marine systems and management > 180504 Marine biodiversity @ 90% 18 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT > 1805 Marine systems and management > 180501 Assessment and management of benthic marine ecosystems @ 10% |
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