Kuhlia rupestris ( 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 : 200

Kuhlia rupestris ( Lacepède 1802) —Rock flagtail

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from St. Mathias by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 60), based on ZMH 11801.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 4.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Caroline and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan, south to Queensland ( Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in estuaries and fast-flowing stretches of middle and lower reaches of rivers, 0–2 m depth. Freshwater and transitional water.