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.