Cephalopholis polleni (Bleeker 1868)

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, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 113

Cephalopholis polleni (Bleeker 1868) —Harlequin grouper ( Fig. 51 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District at 30 m depth by Dean Tully on 30 Sept. 2013.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Comores and Mascarenes east to Palau and Line Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands. Solitary on seaward reefs, 30–70 m depth. Marine.

Figures

FIGURE 51. Cephalopholis polleni (Bleeker 1868), Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 30 m depth, 30 Sept. 2013 (underwater photograph: Dean Tully).