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 GTX5 Bloch & Schneider 1801 [151,360,1254,1279] Actinopterygii Tetraodontidae Arothron Animalia Tetraodontiformes 333 334 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.