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.