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Labridae
Red pigfish
Bodianus unimaculatus
Single spotted red fish long confused with relatives
- Red
- Temperate
- Island endemic
- Southern Hemisphere
- Island endemic species
- Local endemic species
- Restricted distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Oceania
- Medium
- Temperate fish
Red
Temperate
Restricted distribution
MediumRed pigfish is a marine fish from Southwest Pacific. It inhabits reef habitat. Records give a maximum length of 50 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Unnamed Order
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Bodianus
- Maximum length
- 50 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Southwest Pacific: Australia (southern Queensland to Victoria) and New Zealand. Also Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands (Ref. 8879 ). Previously confused with Bodianus vulpinus , a West Australian endemic, Bodianus oxycephalus from Japan, and other similar species at Easter Island and Hawaii.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Order
Family
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