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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Carangoides bajad
(Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)
—Orange-spotted trevally
Status at
New Ireland
.
First recorded from off Kavieng,
New Ireland
, as
Carangoides auroguttatus
, by
Kailola (1975
: 117); record confirmed as
C. bajad
by Kailola (1987b: 276). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on
1 Jan. 2007
; a video of a specimen taken at Alexander Passage, off southeastern New Hanover, at
5–14 m
depth, St. KR96, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell). KFRS material.
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to
Solomon Islands
, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to
Indonesia
and
Papua New Guinea
. Found above coastal reefs and seaward reef slopes,
1–70 m
depth. Marine.