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Labridae
Blackfin hogfish
Bodianus loxozonus
Slant banded hogfish across the western Pacific
- Black
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Oceania
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Black
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
MediumBlackfin hogfish is a marine fish found around Western Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 47 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Unnamed Order
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Bodianus
- Maximum length
- 47 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: eastward to French Polynesia, north to Japan, south to New Caledonia. Myers & Lieske 1994 (Ref. 9710 ) list the subspecies loxozonus as occurring from Vietnam to the Marshall Islands and Tonga, north to the Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands and the subspecies trotteri as occurring in the Line and Cook Islands and French Polynesia. Reports of Bodianus hirsutus (synonym of Bodianus macrourus ) from SW Indian Ocean may be referring to this species.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
