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
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White, William T.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
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journal article
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Hemitaurichthys polylepis
(Bleeker 1857)
—Pyramid butterflyfish (
Fig. 91
)
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on a specimen photographed on
5 June 2013
during
ACIAR
Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District
; specimens photographed at
Lissenung Island
by
Dietmar Amon
on
11 June 2009
,
others at
St.
KVG 17 on the
Bismarck Sea
side of
northern Kavieng District
by
Serge Andréfouët
on
18 Aug. 2014
,
and at
St.
KVG28 (southeast of
New Hanover
) by
Serge Andréfouët
on
24 Aug. 2014
.
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution:
Indonesia
east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands and
Pitcairn
Group, north to southern
Japan
and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern
Australia
and
New Caledonia
. Found in large aggregations above outer slopes of seaward coral reefs,
3–60 m
depth. Marine.