Amblyeleotris yanoi Aonuma & Yoshino 1996 —Yano's shrimpgoby Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken on north coast of Manne Island, Kavieng District at 1–11 m depth, St. KR 36, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken in Senta Passage, southeast of New Hanover at 5–16 m depth, St. KR 118, in 2014. Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Indonesia east to Marshall Islands and Papua New Guinea, north to Ryukyu Islands. Found on sand bottoms of lagoon and seaward reefs, associated with an alpheid shrimp, 3–35 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 271-272, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163