Wrasse
Labroides dimidiatus
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
- Labroides
Where to Find
Found in 83 diving areas across 39 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 14 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 14 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 77 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 26 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 10 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 35 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 6 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 34 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 18 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 35 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 36 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 3 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 16 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 7 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 28 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 76 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 118 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 21 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 894 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 70 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 69 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 278 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 159 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 178 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 7 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 25 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 17 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 12 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 7 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Baa Atoll, Maldives - 9 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 13 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 5 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 5 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 19 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 28 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 88 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 51 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 46 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 68 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 6 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 7 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 7 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 5 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 7 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 2 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 5 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 60 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 32 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 89 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 77 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 4 records
- Subic Bay, Philippines - 9 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 15 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 73 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 6 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 18 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 8 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 165 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 191 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 48 records