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.