Cephalopholis polleni

Cephalopholis polleni (Bleeker 1868) —Harlequin grouper (Fig. 51) Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District at 30 m depth by Dean Tully on 30 Sept. 2013. Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Comores and Mascarenes east to Palau and Line Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands. Solitary on seaward reefs, 30–70 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 113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163