Pterocaesio tile

Pterocaesio tile (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830) —Bluestreak fusilier Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 1–2 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 10 June 2009; others at St. KVG22 (northeast of Lemus Island, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 21 Aug. 2014; a video of a specimen taken off Nubilus Island, off southeastern New Hanover, at 3–32 m depth, St. KR 88, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell). Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Line Islands (Kiribati) and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia, New Caledonia and Tonga. Schooling near coral or rocky reefs, 0–60 m depth. Marine.Published as part of 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, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/298816