Pleurosicya mossambica Smith 1959

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 : 288

Pleurosicya mossambica Smith 1959 — Mozambique ghostgoby

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 18 Apr. 2009.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Marshall and Marquesas islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Found on a variety of hosts, 2–30 m depth. Marine.