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 7FFF9 (Fourmanoir 1957) Fourmanoir 1957 [151,672,151,176] Actinopterygii Gobiidae Vanderhorstia Animalia Perciformes 292 293 Chordata species ambanoro   Status at New Ireland. Firstrecorded from  New Irelandby Allen & Erdmann (2012: 887); a video of a specimen taken on north coast of Manne Island, Kavieng Districtat  1–11 mdepth, St. KR36, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Kawauiliaka Island, off northeastern New Hanover, at  3–12 mdepth, St. KR132, in 2014.   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africaeast to Marshall Islandsand Samoa, north to Yaeyama Islands, south to New Caledonia. Found on sand bottoms of lagoon and seaward reef slopes, associated with alpheid shrimps,  0–30 mdepth. Marine.