Acanthurus triostegus

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 4. — General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Panama, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Lord Howe, Kermadec, Rapa and Ducie islands. Found in lagoon and seaward reefs with hard substrate; juveniles abundant in tide pools, 0 – 90 m depth. Marine.

Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

Convict Surgeonfish or Convict Tang. To 27 cm (10.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002); Gulf of California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including tip of Baja California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Koeda et al. 2016); depth: intertidal to 90 m (295 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997).

Sumber: Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico