Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Author
Andréfouët, Serge
Author
Chen, Wei-Jen
Author
Kinch, Jeff
Author
Mana, Ralph
Author
Russell, Barry C.
Author
Tully, Dean
Author
White, William T.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
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Sargocentron melanospilos
(Bleeker 1858)
—Blackspot squirrelfish (
Fig. 30
)
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on specimen photographed at
Lissenung Island
,
Kavieng District
,
7 m
depth, by Dean Tully on
22 Sept. 2012
.
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa,
Seychelles
,
Comores
and
La Réunion
east to
Wake
Atoll,
Marshall Islands
,
Samoa
and
Tonga
, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to
Western Australia
,
Queensland
(
Australia
) and
New Caledonia
. Found on seaward reef slopes,
5–90 m
depth. Marine.