Zenarchopterus dispar (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847 )

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 : 79

Zenarchopterus dispar (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847) —Spoonfin river halfbeak ( Fig. 26 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed by D. Tully among mangroves at Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District, on 10 Nov 2017.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa and Madagascar east to Fiji and Samoa, north to Philippines, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia, 0–1 m depth. Freshwater, transitional water and marine.

Figures

FIGURE 26. Zenarchopterus dispar (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847), Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District, mangroves, 10 Nov. 2017 (underwater photograph: Dean Tully).