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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3W7M3
Klausewitz 1960
Klausewitz
1960
[151,549,1196,1221]
Actinopterygii
Gobiidae
Lotilia
Animalia
Perciformes
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286
Chordata
species
graciliosa
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimen photographed at Lissenung Islandby Dietmar Amonon 27 Oct. 2007.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Micronesia, Phoenix Islands( Kiribati) and Fiji, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Found on sand bottom of lagoon and coastal reefs, in burrows with alpheid shrimps, 5–40 mdepth. Marine.
Remarks.The western Pacific populations may be based on Lotilia klausewitziShibukawa, Suzuki & Senou 2012.