Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758 —Live sharksucker

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken near Nusa Island, Kavieng District at 5–23 m depth, St. KR8, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. Found attached to a variety of hosts, including sharks, rays, large bony fishes or sea turtles, whales, dolphins, 0–85 m depth. Marine.