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
8VC8S
(Quoy & Gaimard 1824)
Quoy & Gaimard
1824
[151,633,222,247]
Actinopterygii
Synodontidae
Saurida
Animalia
Aulopiformes
62
63
Chordata
species
gracilis
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken in Albatross Passage, southwestern Kavieng District at 3–13 mdepth, St. KD83, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascarand Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and PitcairnGroup, north to Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Found solitary on sand or silt bottoms near protected reefs, 1–135 mdepth. Marine.