Hoeven's wrasse
Halichoeres melanurus
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 38 diving areas across 18 countries and 5 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 57 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 27 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 35 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 14 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 5 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 19 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 4 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 5 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 314 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 10 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 6 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 32 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 6 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 8 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 3 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 5 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 5 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 13 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 38 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 25 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 4 records
- Subic Bay, Philippines - 13 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 35 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 13 records