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.