Fistularia petimba Lacepède, 1803

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 : 98

Fistularia petimba Lacepède [ex Commerson] 1803—Red cornetfish, serrate flutemouth

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland as Fistularia serrata by Peters (1877: 842); subsequently reported as Fistularia petimba by Munro (1958: 140).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 0.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas, except the eastern Pacific. Benthopelagic above soft bottoms, at depths of 1–200 m depth. Transitional water and marine.