Blackside Hawkfish
Paracirrhites forsteri
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 50 diving areas across 30 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 24 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 32 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 35 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 4 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 4 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 6 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 51 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 66 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 594 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 9 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 31 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 19 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 26 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 9 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 3 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 34 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 19 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 37 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 4 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 89 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 18 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 14 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 3 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 16 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 9 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 8 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 13 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 31 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 34 records