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.