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 VH39 Strasburg & Schultz 1953 Strasburg & Schultz 1953 [151,727,764,789] Actinopterygii Blenniidae Cirripectes Animalia Perciformes 255 256 Chordata species stigmaticus   Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken west of Albatross Passage, southwestern Kavieng District, St. KR50, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascarand western Mascarenes east to Marshall Islands, Samoaand Tonga, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Found on the upper edge of seaward reef slopes, 1–20 mdepth. Marine.