Vanderhorstia dorsomacula Randall 2007

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 : 293

Vanderhorstia dorsomacula Randall 2007 —Dorsalspot shrimpgoby

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen observed at Balang Island, New Hanover , 0–18 m depth, St. T 21, on 6 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Palau and Papua New Guinea, north to Ryukyu Islands. Found on sand bottom near coastal, lagoon and seaward reefs, associated with a alphaeid shrimp, 5–35 m depth. Marine.