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Mullidae
yellowfin goatfish
Mulloidichthys vanicolensis
Mullid Fish from the Hawaiian Islands
yellowfin goatfish is known around Indo-Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and the largest recorded length is 39.8 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Goatfishes
- Family
- Mullidae
- Genus
- Mulloidichthys
- Maximum length
- 39.8 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, East Africa, Comoro Islands and Mascarenes, east to the Hawaiian Islands, Line Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Joseph Bonaparte Gulf (northern in front of Western Australia), New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec Islands, New Caledonia, Tonga and Gambier Islands (Ref. 86817 ). Reported from Easter Island (Ref. 89467 ). Records from Eastern Pacific in Mexico and Panama need further confirmation.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

