Callionymus petersi Fricke 2016

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 : 265

* Callionymus petersi Fricke 2016 — Peters’s dragonet

Status at New Ireland. Originally descrived from New Hanover and Kavieng, New Ireland by Fricke (2016b: 41, figs. 1–3); previously misidentified as Callionymus calauropomus (non Richardson, 1844) by Peters (1877: 841), as Callionymus moretonensis (non Johnson, 1971) from New Ireland by Fricke (1981: 359), based on ZMB 9399, and by Fricke (1983: 223–226). Record from New Ireland based on MNHN, NTUM, SMF and ZMB material from off New Hanover and off Kavieng.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—Apparently endemic to New Ireland ( Papua New Guinea). 181–207 m depth. Marine.