Synodus binotatus Schultz in Schultz, Herald, Lachner, Welander & Woods 1953

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 : 63

Synodus binotatus Schultz in Schultz, Herald, Lachner, Welander & Woods 1953 — Twospot lizardfish ( Fig. 18)

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 12 Apr. 2007.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East Africa and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian and Line islands, north to Ogasawara Islands, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Found in coral reefs and adjacent lagoons, 1–88 m depth. Marine.

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FIGURE 18. Synodus binotatus Schultz in Schultz, Herald, Lachner, Welander & Woods 1953, Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 12 Apr. 2007 (underwater photograph: Dietmar Amon).