Sebastapistes cyanostigma (Bleeker 1856) —Yellow-spotted scorpionfish Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen observed at Nemto Island, New Hanover, 1–50 m depth, St. T 23, on 7 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen. Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Aldabra, Comores and Mauritius (Mascarenes) east to Mariana Islands and Phoenix Islands (Kiribati), north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New Caledonia and Tonga. Found among branches of Pocillopora coral heads, 2–15 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 pages 103-104, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163