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 52GFY (Bennett 1833) Bennett 1833 [151,589,980,1005] Actinopterygii Labridae Stethojulis Animalia Perciformes 237 238 Chordata species strigiventer   Status at New Ireland. New record; previously misidentified from New Hanover as  Platyglossus trilineatus(non Bloch & Schneider, 1801) by Peters (1877: 843); reported as  Halichoeres timorensis(non Bleeker, 1852) by Munro (1958: 237); a video of a specimen taken in Albatross Passage, southwestern Kavieng District, at 3–13 mdepth, St. KD83, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascarand Mascarenes east to Marshall, Tuamotu and Gambier islands, north to southern Japan, south to Lord Howe Island, Tongaand Austral Islands. Found in seagrass beds and areas of mixed sand, rubble, and algae of inner coral reef flats and shallow lagoons, 1–15 mdepth. Marine.