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 7FHQ3 (Forsskal in Niebuhr 1775) Forsskal in Niebuhr 1775 [151,620,1412,1437] Actinopterygii Serranidae Variola Animalia Perciformes 125 126 Chordata species louti   Status at New Ireland.First recorded from New Irelandas  Serranus punctulatusby Quoy & Gaimard (1834: 654– 655, pl. 3, fig. 2); reported from Ningin Island ( New Ireland) and Drei Inseln Harbour (New Hanover) by Munro (1958: 167). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005, and by Barry C. Russell on 21 June 2014. MNHN material.   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africaeast to PitcairnGroup, north to southern Japanand Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island and Rapa. Solitary in seaward coral reefs, 3–240 mdepth. Marine.