Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Andréfouët, Serge
Chen, Wei-Jen
Kinch, Jeff
Mana, Ralph
Russell, Barry C.
Tully, Dean
White, William T.
Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
1
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65DZW
(Kuhl in Hasselt 1823)
Kuhl in Hasselt
1823
[151,647,1967,1992]
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatidae
Aetobatus
Animalia
Myliobatiformes
45
46
Chordata
species
ocellatus
Status at New Ireland.First recorded from southern New Irelandby Gochfeld (1996); subsequently reported from
Kavieng region by White et al. (2018: 281), White & Ko'ou (2018: 65), based on specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 30 Apr. 2008, at 24 mdepth by Dean Tully on 25 June 2014, and by D. Borcherds.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 3.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africaeast to Hawaiian Islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Found solitary or in small groups over soft bottoms and near coral reefs, often well offshore, 1–100 mdepth. Transitional water and marine.