Dr. Gerald (Gerry) Robert Allen, Australien
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This brown damselfish with blue fringed fins is known only from shallow, muddy reefs around corals and rocks off the FakFak-Kaimana coast (documented from
Karawatu Island in Kaimana and the Kokas Islands in northern FakFak, western New Guinea).
Pomacentrus fakfakensis is currently known only from southwestern New Guinea (Papua Barat Province, Indonesia) on Karawatu Island and on the northern coast of the FakFak Peninsula near Kokas village = endemic species.
In both places the species was relatively common.
Etymology: The name of the new species is "fakfakensis" with reference to the FakFak Peninsula in western New Guinea, the only known locality of this species.
Karawatu Island in Kaimana and the Kokas Islands in northern FakFak, western New Guinea).
Pomacentrus fakfakensis is currently known only from southwestern New Guinea (Papua Barat Province, Indonesia) on Karawatu Island and on the northern coast of the FakFak Peninsula near Kokas village = endemic species.
In both places the species was relatively common.
Etymology: The name of the new species is "fakfakensis" with reference to the FakFak Peninsula in western New Guinea, the only known locality of this species.
