Blackedge thicklip wrasse
Hemigymnus melapterus
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 56 diving areas across 28 countries and 5 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 8 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 8 records
- Coral Sea, Australia - 209 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 262 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 8 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 32 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 74 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 78 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 52 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 33 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 34 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 26 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 62 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 96 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 158 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 29 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 74 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 213 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 48 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 25 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 266 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 149 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 100 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 19 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 60 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 4 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 3 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 7 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 10 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 4 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 6 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 6 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 9 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 5 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 3 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 5 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 15 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 20 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 4 records