Big long-nosed Butterflyfish
Forcipiger longirostris
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 35 diving areas across 23 countries and 5 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 5 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 18 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 130 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 13 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 30 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 8 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 8 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 4 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 7 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 6 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 17 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 45 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 14 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 6 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 91 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 49 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 31 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 38 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 25 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 31 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 11 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 20 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 9 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 2 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 7 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 8 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 4 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 5 records