Onuxodon fowleri (Smith 1955)

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 : 70

Onuxodon fowleri (Smith 1955) — Fowler's pearlfish

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on NTUM 11411 (2 specimens, 116–125 mm SL, St. KR 22, Kavieng, Kavieng District , 2°33.468’S 150°47.433’E, 0–11 m depth, 5 June 2014), and NTUM 11416 (1 specimen, 113.5 mm SL, St. KZ 24, northwest of Edmago Island, Kavieng District , 2°36.675’S 150°44.290’E, 10–22 m depth, 27 June 2014) .

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Pitcairn islands, north to Taiwan, south to New South Wales ( Australia). Benthic, reef-associated, lives in holothurians, 1– 30 m depth. Marine.