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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1
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journal article
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Sufflamen bursa
(Bloch & Schneider 1801)
—Scythe triggerfish, boomerang triggerfish (
Fig. 165
)
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
based on specimens photographed on
1–2 June 2013
during ACIAR
Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District
; a specimen photographed at
Lissenung Island
by
Dietmar Amon
on
23 July 2006
; a video of a specimen taken off
southern New Hanover
at
3–47 m
depth,
St. KR
106, in 2014 (identified by
Barry C. Russell
).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution: East and
South Africa
,
Seychelles
and Mascarenes east to
Wake
Atoll and
Pitcairn
Group, north to southern
Japan
and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern
Australia
,
New Caledonia
and Rapa. Found in clear inner and outer coral and rocky reef habitats from exposed algae reef flats to deep along drop-offs,
3–90 m
depth. Marine.