Pearl-spotted wrasse
Halichoeres margaritaceus
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
- Halichoeres
Where to Find
Found in 33 diving areas across 20 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 3 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 8 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 64 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 33 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 17 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 38 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 36 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 40 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 8 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 336 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 6 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 10 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 22 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 15 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 17 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 17 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 16 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 15 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 4 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 5 records