Sargocentron cornutum (Bleeker 1854)

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 : 85

Sargocentron cornutum (Bleeker 1854) —Threespot squirrelfish ( Fig. 29 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed in 2012 at New Hanover by Gerald R. Allen.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1.—General distribution: Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Vanuatu, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland ( Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in seaward reef areas, 6–40 m depth. Marine.

Figures

FIGURE 29. Sargocentron cornutum (Bleeker 1854), New Hanover, eastern end of island near Narimlaua Village, 20 Dec. 2012 (underwater photograph: Gerald Allen).