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
VGW6
(Forster in Bloch & Schneider 1801)
Forster in Bloch & Schneider
1801
[151,824,151,176]
Actinopterygii
Cirrhitidae
Cirrhitus
Animalia
Perciformes
201
202
Chordata
species
pinnulatus
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken off Nubilus Island, off southeastern New Hanover, at 3–32 mdepth, St. KR88, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); a specimen observed at Nusa Island, Kavieng District, 1–27 mdepth, St. T8, on 1 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, MozambiqueChannel, Madagascarand Mascarenes to Hawaiian Islands and PitcairnGroup, north to southern Japan, south to Kermadec Islands and Rapa. Solitary, seaward coral reefs, 0–3 mdepth. Marine.