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
6L24F
Lacepede 1801
Lacepede
1801
[151,546,1879,1904]
Actinopterygii
Labridae
Gomphosus
Animalia
Perciformes
226
227
Chordata
species
varius
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on photograph taken on 1 June 2013during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; a video of a specimen taken at Tungelo Island, off southeastern New Hanover, at 3–46 mdepth, St. KR104, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesiaeast to Hawaiian and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japanand Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia, Lord Howe and Norfolk islands. Solitary, juveniles in groups, in coral-rich areas of lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 0–35 mdepth. Marine.