Chaetodon punctatofasciatus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831

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 : 187

Chaetodon punctatofasciatus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831 —Spot-banded butterflyfish

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken at Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District, at 1–35 m depth, St. KR56, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Malay Peninsula east to Line Islands, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to northern Australia. Found in lagoons and seaward coral reef slopes, 3– 45 m depth. Marine.