Ostorhinchus nanus (Allen, Kuiter & Randall 1994)

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 : 136

Ostorhinchus nanus (Allen, Kuiter & Randall 1994) —Tiny cardinalfish

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 3 m depth, by Dean Tully on 2 Sept. 2012; a video of a specimen taken at Anelaua Island , off eastern New Hanover , at 3–16 m depth, St. KR 98, in 2014.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Solomon Islands, north to Sabah ( Malaysia) and Philippines. Forming aggregations above sheltered coral reefs, 3–20 m depth. Marine.