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 1 360 3LZPJ Bleeker 1852 Bleeker 1852 [151,621,1525,1550] Actinopterygii Syngnathidae Hippocampus Animalia Syngnathiformes 94 95 Chordata species taeniopterus   Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Islandby Dietmar Amonon  16 May 2009, and by Dean Tullyat  1 mdepth on  19 Sept. 2015, and at  8 mdepth on  26 Sept. 2015. Previously misidentified as  Hippocampus kuda(non Bleeker, 1852) by Duncker & Mohr 1925: 18 (Kavieng, New Ireland), based on ZMH 12952 (2).   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Indonesiaand Papua New Guineaeast to Fiji, south to New Caledonia. Found among seagrass and in mud habitats, 5–30 mdepth. Marine.