Ctenogobiops maculosus (Fourmanoir 1955)

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 : 279

Ctenogobiops maculosus (Fourmanoir 1955) —Silverspot shrimpgoby

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District , 8 m depth, by Dean Tully on 6 July 2011.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and Seychelles east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia. Found on coral and rubble bottoms near coral reefs, associated with alpheid shrimps, 1–15 m depth. Marine.