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 4VSST Peters 1877 Peters 1877 [151,482,1406,1431] Actinopterygii Nemipteridae Scolopsis Animalia Perciformes 165 166 Chordata species affinis   Status at New Ireland.Originally described from Carteret Harbour, Lambom, New Ireland, by Peters (1877: 832), based on ZMB 9584-9585( 2 syntypes); a video of a specimen taken off Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District, at  2– 35 mdepth, St. KR58, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken off southeastern New Hanoverat  3– 16 mdepth, St. KR98, in 2014.   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3.—General distribution: Andaman Sea east to Caroline and Solomon islands, north to Ryukyu islands, south to Timor Sea (northern Western Australia). Found on sand bottoms of lagoons and in coastal reefs, 5–35 mdepth. Marine.