Valenciennea immaculata (Ni 1981)

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 : 291

Valenciennea immaculata (Ni 1981) —Immaculate goby

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken near Wadei Island, Kavieng District at 11–15 m depth, St. KR72, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to Taiwan, south to northern Australia. Found on fine sand bottom near coastal reefs, usually in pairs, 1–30 m depth. Marine.