Double-bar Goatfish
Parupeneus crassilabris
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
- Mulliformes
- Family
- Mullidae
- Genus
- Parupeneus
Where to Find
Found in 23 diving areas across 14 countries and 3 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 2 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 5 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 51 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 94 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 27 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 126 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 42 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 69 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 12 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 7 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 7 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 10 records