Fistularia commersonii Rüppell 1838

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 97-98

Fistularia commersonii Rüppell 1838 —Cornetfish

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on NTUM 11407 (1 specimen, 110.0 mm SL, St. KR 30, Kavieng Harbour, Kavieng District, 2°35.472S 150°47.211’E, 6 m depth, 6 June 2014); previously misidentified from St. Mathias as Fistularia villosa (non Klunzinger, 1871) by Duncker & Mohr (1925: 4), based on ZMH 11923; a video of a specimen taken at Martha's Shoal, east of New Hanover, at 7–41 m depth, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 4.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa east to Panama, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern New Zealand; also southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Found above soft bottoms adjacent to coral and rocky reefs, at depths of 1–128 m depth. Marine.