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Axilspot hogfish
Bodianus axillaris (Bennett, 1832)
Also calledBodião-axilar (por) · Doncella Bicolor (spa) · Hikaa (div) · Labre bicolore (fra) · Labre à tache pectorale (fra) · Làbrid bicolor (cat) · Pesce porco puntinato (ita) · Sumitsukibera (jpn) · Tamarin (fra) · Treplettet læbefisk (dan) · Zweifleck-Schweinslippfisch (deu) · ostnatec pažďoskvrnný (ces) · po'ou (tah) · Чернопятнистый бодиан (rus)
Bodianus axillaris, the axilspot hogfish, coral pigfish or turncoat hogfish, is a species of wrasse native to the Indo-Pacific.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Line Islands, Marquesas Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan and Marshall Islands, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island and Rapa. Usually solitary in lagoons and seaward reefs, 2 – 40 m depth. Marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen in a video of a specimen taken in Nissel Passage, Kavieng District, at 6 – 22 m depth, St. KR 4, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Nubilus Island, off eastern New Hanover, 3 – 25 m depth, St. KR 90, in 2014.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The axilspot hogfish is sexually dimorphic with the adult males being coloured reddish-brown on the front part of their bodies contrasting with the white posterior end and having a sizeable black spot at the base of the pectoral fin, as well as on the dorsal and anal fins. The females and the juveniles are a blackish colour marked with white blotches along the upper and lower flanks. The juveniles of this species resemble those of the split-level hogfish (Bodianus mesothorax) but possess white instead of yellow spots. It grows to a standard length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in).
Range & habitat
Axilspot hogfish are found in the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea to South Africa, Marshall Islands, Marquesan, and Tuamoto Islands, north to Japan.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Bodianus axillaris in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5209666.