Lubbockichthys multisquamatus (Allen 1987)

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 : 128

Lubbockichthys multisquamatus (Allen 1987) —Many-scaled dottyback

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen observed at Nusa Island, Kavieng District , 1–27 m depth, St. T 8, on 1 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Christmas Island and Cocos-Keeling Islands, and Indonesia east to Philippines and Solomon Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Great Barrier Reef ( Australia). Found in caves and crevices of seaward reef slopes 12–60 m depth. Marine.