Lethrinus semicinctus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830

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 : 172

Lethrinus semicinctus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830 —Black blotch emperor

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Lihir Group, Namatamai District by Fry et al. (2006: 129).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 5.—General distribution: Sri Lanka east to Fiji, Marshall Islands, Australia and to the Ryukyu Islands. Solitary or in groups, in seagrass areas and on sand or rubble bottoms adjacent to coral reefs, 4–30 m depth. Marine.