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
3RKT4
(Guichenot 1847)
Guichenot
1847
[151,636,404,429]
Actinopterygii
Labridae
Labrichthys
Animalia
Perciformes
232
233
Chordata
species
unilineatus
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 4 mdepth, by Dean Tullyon 16 Sept. 2012; another photographed at St. KVGPMT39 (south of Lemus Island, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 21 Aug. 2014; a video of a specimen taken off southern New Hanover, at 4–51 mdepth, St. KR110, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa, Aldabra and western Mascarenes east to Society Islands, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island and Tonga. Found in lagoon and semi-protected seaward coral reefs with high coral cover, near branching corals, particularly staghorn Acropora; feeds on coral polyps, 0–20 mdepth. Marine.