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 3FX37 Lacepede 1801 [151,368,1257,1282] Actinopterygii Gerreidae Gerres Animalia Perciformes 160 161 Chordata species longirostris   Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District,  3 mdepth, by Dean Tully on  5 July 2011.   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East and South Africa, Aldabra, Madagascarand Mascarenes east to Palauand Marquesas Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands and Japan, south to Queensland( Australia), New Caledoniaand Tonga. Adults on shallow soft bottoms adjacent to coral reefs; juveniles in estuaries, 0–50 mdepth. Transitional water and marine.