Diana's hogfish
| Diana's hogfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Bodianus |
| Species: | B. diana |
| Binomial name | |
| Bodianus diana (Lacépède, 1801) | |
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Diana's hogfish, Bodianus diana, is a species of wrasse native to the Indian Ocean from the African coast to the Nicobars and the Cocos-Keeling Islands. Reports of its presence in the western Pacific Ocean are erroneous. It occurs on the seaward side of reefs at depths from 6 to 50 m (20 to 164 ft) (though rarely deeper than 25 m (82 ft)). It can reach a length of 16.9 cm (6.7 in). This species is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries and is found in the aquarium trade.[2]
Common Name
Diana's hogfish
Habitat
Salt water. Juveniles have been observed living among the tentacles of the mushroom coral Heliofungia actiniformis.[3][4]
Dispersion
Andaman sea
Utilization
Fishery: Small Trading; Aquarium: Trade
References
- ↑ Russell, B. 2010. Bodianus diana. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 September 2013.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Bodianus diana" in FishBase. August 2013 version.
- ↑ Bos, A.R. & B.W. Hoeksema (2015). "Cryptobenthic fishes and co-inhabiting shrimps associated with the mushroom coral Heliofungia actiniformis (Fungiidae) in the Davao Gulf, Philippines". Environmental Biology of Fishes 98 (6): 1479–1489. doi:10.1007/s10641-014-0374-0.
- ↑ Bos, A.R. (2012). "Fishes (Gobiidae and Labridae) associated with the mushroom coral Heliofungia actiniformis (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in the Philippines". Coral Reefs 31 (1): 133. doi:10.1007/s00338-011-0834-3.
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