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
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GTX5
Bloch & Schneider
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Actinopterygii
Tetraodontidae
Arothron
Animalia
Tetraodontiformes
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334
Chordata
species
stellatus
Status at New Ireland. Firstrecorded from New Irelandas Tetrodon stellatusby Günther (1910: 465–466). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 10 mdepth, by Dean Tully on 26 Sept. 2015.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascarand Mascarenes east to Tuamotu Archipelago, north to southern Japanand Ogasawara Islands, south to Lord Howe Island and northern New Zealand. Found in patch reefs and coral reef slopes near sandy areas of clear lagoon and seaward reefs; juveniles occur in sandy and seagrass inner reefs, 1–58 mdepth. Marine.