Pardachirus pavoninus ( 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 : 317

Pardachirus pavoninus ( Lacepède 1802) —Peacock sole

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 8 Sept. 2010.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found on sand and mud bottoms of lagoon and seaward reefs, 1–40 m depth. Marine.