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Oxycheilinus unifasciatus

Description

Oxycheilinus unifasciatus (Streets 1877) —Ringtail wrasse

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken west of Albatross Passage, southwestern Kavieng District, St. KR50, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Martha's Shoal, off eastern New Hanover, at 7–41 m depth, St. KR122, in 2014.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Christmas Island and Cocos-Keeling Islands east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu Islands and southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New Caledonia, Tonga and Rapa. Solitary, in coastal or seaward reefs, 1–160 m depth. Marine.

Notes

Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 236, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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