Eviota bifasciata Lachner & Karnella 1980

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 : 280

Eviota bifasciata Lachner & Karnella 1980 —Twostripe dwarfgoby

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 4–5 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; 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).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Palau and Solomon Islands, north to Philippines, south to Queensland ( Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in groups hovering over branched or tabular corals, 0–15 m depth. Marine.