Exyrias belissimus (Smith 1959)

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 : 283-284

Exyrias belissimus (Smith 1959) —Beautiful goby ( Fig. 140 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 4 m depth, by Dean Tully on 17 Sept. 2012; a video of a specimen taken at Anelaua Island , off eastern New Hanover , at 3–16 m depth, St. KR 98, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Caroline Islands and Samoa, north to Yaeyama Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found in silty coastal and lagoon reefs, 0–30 m depth. Marine.

Figures

FIGURE 140. Exyrias belissimus (Smith 1959), Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 4 m depth, 17 Sept. 2012 (underwater photograph: Dean Tully).