Pterocaesio trilineata Carpenter 1987

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 : 160

Pterocaesio trilineata Carpenter 1987 —Three-stripe fusilier ( Fig. 70 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 8 m depth, by Dean Tully on 6 July 2011; a video of a specimen taken from Senta Passage, off eastern New Hanover , 5–16 m depth, at St. KR 118, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Eastern Indonesia east to Marshall Islands and Fiji, north to Philippines, south to Queensland ( Australia) and Norfolk Island. Schooling near coastal, lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 0–50 m depth. Marine.

Figures

FIGURE 70. Pterocaesio trilineata Carpenter 1987, Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 8 m depth, 6 July 2011 (underwater photograph: Dean Tully).