Bird wrasse
Gomphosus varius
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
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Gomphosus
Where to Find
Found in 45 diving areas across 26 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 431 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 8 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 16 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 652 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 27 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 40 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 50 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 6 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 9 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 13 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1073 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 32 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 54 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 353 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 128 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 177 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 9 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 7 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 8 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 15 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 3 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 10 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 43 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 48 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 23 records