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 6G3CM (Pallas 1770) Pallas 1770 [151,529,1556,1581] Actinopterygii Labridae Epibulus Animalia Perciformes 226 227 Chordata species insidiator   Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District,  5 mdepth, by Dean Tullyon  15 Sept. 2012; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover,  3– 25 mdepth, St. KR90, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascarand Mascarenes east to Hawaiian and Gambier islands, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland( Australia), New Caledoniaand Tonga. Found in coral-rich areas of lagoon and seaward reefs, 1–42 mdepth. Marine.