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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Labroides bicolor
Fowler & Bean 1928
—Bicolour cleaner wrasse
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on specimen photographed at
Lissenung Island
,
Kavieng District
,
4 m
depth, by
Dean Tully
on
26 June 2013
; another photographed at St. KVG18 (south side of
Bauddisson Island
,
Kavieng District
) by Serge Andréfouët on
18 Aug. 2014
; a video of a specimen taken at
Alexander Passage
, off
southeastern New Hanover
, at
5–14 m
depth,
St. KR
96, in 2014 (identified by
Barry C. Russell
).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution:
KwaZulu-Natal
(
South Africa
) and East Africa,
Madagascar
and Mascarenes east to
Wake
Atoll and
Pitcairn
Group, north to southern
Japan
and Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe and Austral islands. Found in lagoon and seaward coral or rocky reefs, territorial around prominent coral or rock formations called ‘cleaning stations’,
0–40 m
depth. Marine.