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Cirrhitidae
Whitespot hawkfish
Paracirrhites hemistictus
Twenty Nine Centimeters Cirrhitid Fish of the Hawaiian Islands
- White
- Tropical
- Coastal
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
White
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
MediumWhitespot hawkfish is a marine fish from Eastern Indian Ocean. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 29 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cirrhitidae
- Genus
- Paracirrhites
- Maximum length
- 29 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Indian Ocean: Cocos-Keeling and Christmas islands. Pacific Ocean: all islands of Oceania except Hawaii and Easter Island. Also known from the Ogasawara Islands (Ref. 559 ). Remains unreported from any continental shore or any of the large islands of the Indo-Malayan region.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
