identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
ACA9C4122F725C72AB86426A7AB8275C.text	ACA9C4122F725C72AB86426A7AB8275C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Amphiprion maohiensis O'Donnell, Beldade, Johns & Bernardi 2025	<div><p>Amphiprion maohiensis O’Donnell, Beldade, Johns &amp; Bernardi sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Suppl. material 1: table S 1</p><p>Polynesian Anemonefish.</p><p>Type locality. Opunohu, Moorea, French Polynesia, 17.4889°S, 149.8668°W.</p><p>Holotype. The holotype is preserved at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, with the catalog number: CAS-ICH 248601, adult, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-149.8668&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-17.4889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -149.8668/lat -17.4889)">Opunohu</a>, Moorea, French Polynesia, 17.4889°S, 149.8668°W, collected with a hand net by O’Donnell, J., 21 June 2016 (Fig. 2).</p><p>Paratypes. Two other individuals collected with the holotype (CAS-ICH 248602), one individual from same locality collected in September 2020 (CAS-ICH 248603), individuals from Raroia Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, (CAS ICH 202634) , and other individuals from French Polynesia (CAS-ICH 208511, CAS-ICH 208512 CAS-ICH 202578, and CAS-ICH 233689) .</p><p>Comparative material.</p><p>Amphiprion chrysopterus CAS 7418 a, CAS 7418 a (Fiji), and CAS 208514 a, CAS 208514 b, CAS 202579 a, CAS 202579 b, CAS 208508, CAS 202638, CAS 233687 a, CAS 233687 b, CAS 202636, CAS 202641, CAS 208509, CAS 208510, CAS 208513 (Palau).</p><p>Diagnosis and description.</p><p>A species of Amphiprion, distinguished by the following combination of characters: dorsal rays X – XI, 17; anal rays II, 14–15, tubed lateral line scales 35–40 (Table 1); adult coloration in life; iris dark; body, light orange to dark yellow; two white to bluish bars, the first behind the eye, the second midbody; all fins orange. Distinctive characters compared to A. chrysopterus, morphological: Dorsal fin length (&gt; 58 % of standard length for A. maohiensis, &lt;56 % of standard length in A. chrysopterus), genetics: species can be unambiguously distinguished both with mitochondrial and nuclear genomic markers (reciprocally monophyletic clades).</p><p>Habitat.</p><p>Polynesian anemonefish usually occurs in association with Radianthus magnifica (formerly Heteractis magnifica), the magnificent sea anemone, which is also by very far the most common sea anemone in French Polynesia. Less common sea anemone species may be found and may be associated with Polynesian anemonefish, indicating that they do not show an exclusive association with R. magnifica .</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The term ma’ohiensis refers, in Polynesian, to the belonging of native land, ma’ohi. Apostrophes cannot be used in species names (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Article 32.5. 2), and therefore the species name is maohiensis .</p><p>Common name.</p><p>We suggest Polynesian anemonefish as the common name of this species that is predominantly, if not exclusively, found in French Polynesia.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/ACA9C4122F725C72AB86426A7AB8275C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	O’Donnell, James L.;Beldade, Ricardo;Johns, Jason;Bernardi, Giacomo	O’Donnell, James L., Beldade, Ricardo, Johns, Jason, Bernardi, Giacomo (2025): A new species of Anemonefish from French Polynesia, Amphiprion maohiensis, (Pomacentridae, Amphiprioninae), the Polynesian anemonefish. ZooKeys 1244: 225-237, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1244.141409
