Gnathodentex aureolineatus ( Lacepède 1802 )

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 : 170

Gnathodentex aureolineatus ( Lacepède 1802) —Striped large-eye bream

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on photograph taken on 1 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; specimens observed at Kavieng fish market by Barry C. Russell on 7 June 2014; a video of a specimen taken off southeastern New Hanover at 3–16 m depth, St. KR 98, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.— General distribution: East Africa east to Line and Pitcairn islands , north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands , south to northern Australia. Found in shallow, lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 3–20 m depth. Marine .