Banded Goatfish
Parupeneus multifasciatus
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 51 diving areas across 22 countries and 4 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 3 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 6 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 48 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 89 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 85 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 5 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 600 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 32 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 55 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 165 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 31 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 28 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 150 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 44 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 71 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 46 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 87 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 82 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 131 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 202 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 22 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 99 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1233 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 47 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 52 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 448 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 226 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 461 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 19 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 36 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 84 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 10 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 8 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 11 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 6 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 3 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 3 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 34 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 17 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 16 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 11 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 118 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 11 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 107 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 114 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 13 records