Amblygobius nocturnus (Herre 1945)

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 : 272-273

Amblygobius nocturnus (Herre 1945) —Nocturn goby ( Fig. 131 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 9 m depth, by Dean Tully on 7 July 2011; a video of a specimen taken in Senta Passage, southeast of New Hanover at 5–16 m depth, St. KR 118, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Persian Gulf east to Tuamotu Islands, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to Lord Howe Island and Rapa. Found on silt, mud or fine sand bottoms near coastal reefs, 1–30 m depth. Marine.

Figures

FIGURE 131. Amblygobius nocturnus (Herre 1945), Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 9 m depth, 7 July 2011 (underwater photograph: Dean Tully).