Hemigymnus melapterus (Bloch, 1791)
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| Preliminary list of fishes from Sombrero Island, Philippines, with fifteen new records Edward O Murdy, Carl J Ferraris Jr. et al. (1981) Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington 94(4): 1163-1173 |