Banded thicklip
Hemigymnus fasciatus
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
- Hemigymnus
Where to Find
Found in 53 diving areas across 31 countries and 7 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 125 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 394 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 15 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 27 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 29 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 200 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 14 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 4 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 17 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 13 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 14 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 6 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 10 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 40 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 21 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 12 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 16 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 291 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 32 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 23 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 171 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 48 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 88 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 12 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 20 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 9 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 6 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 5 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 39 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 5 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 5 records
- Safaga, Egypt - 5 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 1 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 8 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 5 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 10 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 11 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 5 records