Amblyeleotris fasciata (Herre 1953)

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 : 269

Amblyeleotris fasciata (Herre 1953) —Red-banded prawn goby

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen observed at Nusa Channel, Kavieng District , 1–19 m depth, St. T 2, on 30 Oct. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Christmas Island east to Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland ( Australia). Found on sand bottoms, associated with an alphaeid shrimp, 2– 20 m depth. Marine.