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.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
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Nemateleotris decora
Randall & Allen 1973
—Elegant dartfish (
Fig. 143
)
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on specimens photographed on
3 June 2013
during ACIAR
Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District
(see
Teitelbaum
et al
. 2013
: 15).
Specimens
photographed at
Lissenung Island
by
Dietmar Amon
on
9 Aug. 2009
and
1 Jan. 2010
; a video of a specimen taken at
Tungelo Island
, off
southeastern New Hanover
, at
3–46 m
depth,
St. KR
104, in 2014 (identified by
Barry C. Russell
). WAM material (WAM P.28186-006,
2 specimens
,
Kavieng
).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and
Mauritius
east to
Marshall Islands
and
Samoa
, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to
Queensland
(
Australia
). Found in burrows on sand-rubble patches of slopes,
28–68 m
depth. Marine.