Oxycirrhites typus Bleeker 1857

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 : 202

Oxycirrhites typus Bleeker 1857 —Longnose hawkfish ( Fig. 98 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 15 May 2011; a video of a specimen taken off Nubilus Island , off southeastern New Hanover , at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, Seychelles and western Mascarenes east to Panama, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Found on steep outer coral reef slopes exposed to strong currents where it lives on large gorgonians and black corals, 10–100 m depth. Marine.

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FIGURE 98. Oxycirrhites typus Bleeker 1857, Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 15 May 2011 (underwater photograph: Dietmar Amon).