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.