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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Exyrias belissimus
(Smith 1959)
—Beautiful goby (
Fig. 140
)
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on a specimen photographed at
Lissenung Island
,
Kavieng District
,
4 m
depth, by
Dean Tully
on
17 Sept. 2012
; a video of a specimen taken at
Anelaua Island
, off
eastern New Hanover
, at
3–16 m
depth,
St. KR
98, in 2014 (identified by
Barry C. Russell
).
FIGURE 140
.
Exyrias belissimus
(Smith 1959)
, Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 4 m depth, 17 Sept. 2012 (underwater photograph: Dean Tully).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to
Caroline Islands
and
Samoa
, north to Yaeyama Islands, south to northern
Australia
and
New Caledonia
. Found in silty coastal and lagoon reefs,
0–30 m
depth. Marine.