Ambon Chromis

distribution

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Christmas and Cocos-Keeling Islands east to Micronesia and Papua New Guinea, north to Yaeyama Islands, south to Western Australia and Queensland (Australia). Found in lagoons and seaward reef slopes, 5 – 65 m depth. Marine.

Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

materials_examined

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken west of Albatross Passage, southwestern Kavieng District, St. KR 50, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, at 3 – 32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014.

Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records