Parachaetodon ocellatus ( Cuvier 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 : 193

Parachaetodon ocellatus ( Cuvier 1831) —Ocellated coralfish ( Fig. 93 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District , 10 m depth, by Dean Tully on 21 Sept. 2012.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Malaysia and Indonesia east to Fiji, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to northern Australia. Solitary or in pairs, in coastal and lagoon reefs with sponges, 5–40 m depth. Marine.

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FIGURE 93. Parachaetodon ocellatus (Cuvier 1831), Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 10 m depth, 21 Sept. 2012 (underwater photograph: Dean Tully).