Arc-eye Hawkfish
Paracirrhites arcatus
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
- Centrarchiformes
- Family
- Cirrhitidae
- Genus
- Paracirrhites
Where to Find
Found in 46 diving areas across 29 countries and 5 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 7 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 7 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 3 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 3 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 33 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 31 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 47 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 76 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 24 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 9 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 6 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 14 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 60 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 82 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1303 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 10 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 78 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 34 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 81 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 5 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 7 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 31 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 14 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 16 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 40 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 63 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 13 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 7 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 14 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 4 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 5 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 16 records