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
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360
69NN3
Bleeker 1853
Bleeker
1853
[151,588,1343,1368]
Actinopterygii
Chaetodontidae
Chaetodon
Animalia
Perciformes
185
186
Chordata
species
oxycephalus
Status at New Ireland.First recorded from New Hanover by Peters (1877: 832); reported as Chaetodon lineolatusvar. oxycephalusby Ahl (1923: 167, 169). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 5 mdepth, by Dean Tully on 6 July 2010; a video of a specimen taken at Martha's Shoal, off eastern New Hanover, at 7–41 mdepth, St. KR122, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Maldivesand Chagos Archipelago east to Pohnpei( Federated States of Micronesia) and Solomon Islands, north to Philippines, south to Queensland( Australia). Found in coral-rich areas in coastal and seaward coral reefs, 10–40 mdepth. Marine.