Three-spot wrasse
Halichoeres trimaculatus
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 39 diving areas across 21 countries and 5 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 82 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 82 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 22 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 7 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 48 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 5 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 45 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 5 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 81 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 64 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 91 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 7 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 92 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 104 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 25 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 103 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 32 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 155 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 16 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 9 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 3 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 15 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 7 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 5 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 197 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 2 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 2 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 2 records