Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records Andréfouët, Serge Chen, Wei-Jen Kinch, Jeff Mana, Ralph Russell, Barry C. Tully, Dean White, William T. Zootaxa 2019 2019-04-23 4588 1 1 360 3HVBZ Bloch & Schneider 1801 Bloch & Schneider 1801 [151,738,433,458] Actinopterygii Muraenidae Gymnothorax Animalia Anguilliformes 50 51 Chordata species favagineus   Status at New Ireland. New record; previously misidentified as  Gymnothorax melanospilus(non Bleeker, 1855) by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 82), based on ZMH 16481.   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 0.—General distribution: East Africa and Omaneast to Fiji, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Australia. Found in crevices in lagoons and seaward coral reefs, 1–50 mdepth. Marine.