Pseudochromis bitaeniatus ( Fowler 1931 )

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 : 128

Pseudochromis bitaeniatus ( Fowler 1931) —Two-lined dottyback

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen in a video of a specimen taken at Manne Island, Kavieng District, 3–25 m depth, St. KR 42, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell), and another off southern New Hanover at 3–47 m depth, St. KR 106.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to Philippines to Palau, Solomon Islands and Australia. Found in coastal and seaward reefs, 2–38 m depth. Marine.