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 6QYS5 (Bloch 1786) Bloch 1786 [151,501,1950,1975] Actinopterygii Balistidae Melichthys Animalia Tetraodontiformes 320 321 Chordata species niger   Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken at Kavieng, Kavieng District, 0–11 mdepth, St. KR22, 5 June 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken on east side of Tsoileunung Island, southeast of New Hanover, at 6–21 m depth, St. KR124, in 2014.   Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate oceans. Found in seaward reefs, 2–75 m depth. Marine.