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 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.