Ecsenius axelrodi Springer 1988

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 256

Ecsenius axelrodi Springer 1988 —Axelrod's coral blenny ( Fig. 120 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 15 June 2007; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island , off eastern New Hanover , at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: eastern Indonesia east to Solomon Islands. Found on seaward reef slopes, 8–30 m depth. Marine.

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FIGURE 120. Ecsenius axelrodi Springer 1988, Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 15 June 2007 (underwater photograph: Dietmar Amon).