Ostracion solorensis Bleeker, 1853

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 : 330-331

Ostracion solorensis Bleeker, 1853 —Solor boxfish ( Fig. 172 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District by Dietmar Amon on 15 Oct. 2007.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Palau, Fiji and Tonga, north to Philippines, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in seaward coral reefs, 1–20 m depth. Marine.

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FIGURE 172. Ostracion solorensis Bleeker, 1853, Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 15 Oct. 2007 (underwater photograph: Dietmar Amon).