Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records Author Andréfouët, Serge Author Chen, Wei-Jen Author Kinch, Jeff Author Mana, Ralph Author Russell, Barry C. Author Tully, Dean Author White, William T. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-04-23 4588 1 1 360 journal article 26780 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1 8bb17a01-6ca6-4225-a42c-be3cb22e3db0 1175-5326 2988163 C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873 Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) —Bloodspot squirrelfish ( Fig. 27 ) Status at New Ireland . First recorded from St. Mathias as Holocentrum sammara by Duncker & Mohr (1929 : 71), based on ZMH 11999, record confimed by Kotlyar (1998 : 205). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 5 m depth, by Dean Tully on 6 July 2011 ; a video of a specimen taken in Alexander Passage, southeast of New Hanover, at 5–14 m depth, St. KR96, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell). Distribution and habitat. New Ireland : 1, 2, 4.—General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Line Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan , Ogasawara and Hawaiian islands, south to Western Australia at 20°33'S , Lord Howe Island, Tonga and Rapa. Found in seagrass beds and hard bottom habitats on lagoon and seaward coral and rocky reefs, often associated with branching Acropora coral, 0–46 m depth. Marine.