Chaetodon burgessi Allen & Starck 1973

Chaetodon burgessi Allen & Starck 1973 —Burgess' butterflyfish (Fig. 83) Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 4 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 14). Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Eastern Indonesia east to Caroline Islands and Tonga, north to Philippines, south to Solomon Islands. Solitary or in pairs, on steep drop-offs of seaward reefs, 20–80 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 182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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