Paracirrhites forsteri (Schneider in Bloch & Schneider 1801) —Freckled hawkfish (Fig. 100)

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on photographs taken on 1 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 13 Oct. 2007; another photographed at St. KVG18b (south side of Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 18 Aug. 2014; a video of a specimen taken off southern New Hanover at 4–51 m depth, St. KR 110, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe, Norfolk and Austral islands. Solitary, in lagoon and seaward reefs, among outer branches of Stylophora, Pocillopora or Acropora corals, 1–33 m depth. Marine.