Big long-nosed Butterflyfish
Forcipiger flavissimus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Forcipiger
Where to Find
Found in 53 diving areas across 33 countries and 8 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 160 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 2 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 235 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 13 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 22 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 38 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 10 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 14 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 6 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 49 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 62 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 5 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 262 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 9 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 11 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 33 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 30 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 81 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 3 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 11 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 9 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 7 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 160 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 13 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 24 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 31 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 31 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 8 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 40 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 55 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 6 records