Twenty-one new records of fish species (Teleostei) from Madang and Papua New Guinea (western Pacific Ocean)

Abstract

New records of fish species are reported from Papua New Guinea:Gymnothorax angusticauda(Muraenidae) from Madang,Coloconger scholesiChan 1967 (Colocongridae) from Madang and New Guinea,Acromycter longipectoralisKarmovskaya 2004 (Congridae),Doryrhamphus melanopleura(Bleeker, 1858) andFestucalex gibbsiDawson 1977 (Syngnathidae) from Madang,Lioscorpius longicepsGünther 1880 (Setarchidae) from Madang, Morobe and New Guinea,Neomerinthe megalepisFowler 1938 andPontinus rhodochrous(Günther 1872) (Scorpaenidae) from Madang and New Guinea,Parabembras curtus(Temminck & Schlegel 1843) (Parabembridae) from Morobe and New Guinea,Chrionema chryseresGilbert 1905 andPteropsaron levitoni Iwamoto2014 (Percophidae) from Madang and New Guinea,Blenniella caudolineata(Günther, 1877) andPetroscirtes xestusJordan & Seale, 1906 (Blenniidae) from Madang,Synchiropus orstomFricke 2000 (Callionymidae) from West Sepik, Sandaun and New Guinea,Rexea antefurcataParin 1989 (Gempylidae),Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepisWeber 1913 (Citharidae),Engyprosopon macrolepis(Regan, 1908) (Bothidae),Aseraggodes kimuraiRandall & Desoutter-Meniger 2007 (Soleidae),Cynoglossus bilineatus(Lacepède, 1802) andSymphurus multimaculatusLee, Munroe & Chen 2009 (Cynoglossidae) from Madang andTylerius spinosissimus(Regan 1908) (Tetraodontidae) from Morobe and Papua New Guinea. This papers also includes new depths records forColoconger scholesi, Lioscorpius longiceps, Neomerinthe megalepis, Pontinus rhodochrous, Parabembras curtus, Chrionema chryseresandSynchiropus orstom.