Forcipiger flavissimus

Forcepsfish or Longnose Butterflyfish. To 22 cm (8.7 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Ida in Masuda et al. 1984); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California (Gotshall 1996) and Cabo San Lucas and in Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 1979) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: 1 – 145 m (3 – 476 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Ralston et al. 1986).

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

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to tropical eastern Pacific, north to southern Japan and Hawaiian Islands, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Kermadec Islands and Rapa; eastern Pacific: Gulf of California to Galapagos Archipelago. Found on coastal and seaward coral reefs, 2 – 114 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