Monodactylidae

Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, Zootaxa 3832 (1), pp. 1-247 : 98

Monodactylidae

Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Silver mono

STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang by Parenti & Allen (1991: 319). Specimens observed at St. CTR 17, and photographed by P. Laboute on 5 Dec. 2012. BPBM and WAM material.

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. East Africa east to Mariana and Caroline islands and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and Norfolk Island. Found in aggregations, often in estuaries or aroung jetties, entering lower reaches of freshwater streams and rivers, 0– 12 m. Freshwater, transitional water and marine.