Heniochus singularius Smith & Radcliffe 1911

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 : 192-193

Heniochus singularius Smith & Radcliffe 1911 —Singular bannerfish ( Fig. 92 )

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland by Allen & Erdmann (2012: 540). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 8 m depth, by Dean Tully on 6 July 2011; a video of a specimen taken at Martha's Shoal, east of New Hanover, St. KR154, at 6–20 m depth, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Maldives and Chagos Archipelago east to Caroline Islands and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Solitary or in pairs, in lagoons and on seaward coral reefs and deep rocky reefs, 2–250 m depth. Marine.

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FIGURE 92. Heniochus singularius Smith & Radcliffe 1911, Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 8 m depth, 6 July 2011 (underwater photograph: Dean Tully).