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.