Parapercis millepunctata (Günther 1860)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 249

Parapercis millepunctata (Günther 1860) —Spotted sandperch

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District , 14 m depth, by Dean Tully on 7 July 2011.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Maldives east to Marshall Islands and Pitcairn, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to Queensland ( Australia) and New Caledonia. Solitary or in small groups, on sand-rubble bottoms near coral reefs, 3–50 m depth. Marine.