Maori Wrasse
Cheilinus undulatus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: EN - Endangered - facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Cheilinus
Where to Find
Found in 45 diving areas across 25 countries and 5 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 11 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 11 records
- Coral Sea, Australia - 35 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 60 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 13 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 22 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 12 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 10 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 5 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 16 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 17 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 21 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 52 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 114 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 4 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 33 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 60 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 11 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 14 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 156 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 10 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 14 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 6 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 5 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 11 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 27 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 109 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 27 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 53 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 6 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 6 records