Manybar Goatfish
Parupeneus multifasciatus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,502
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Parupeneus multifasciatus, the manybar goatfish, is a species of goatfish native to the eastern Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean where it is found from Christmas Island to the Hawaiian Islands and from southern Japan to Lord Howe Island. Its Hawaiian name is moano-nui-ka-lehua (meaning "great moano of the lehua"), and the juveniles are called 'ahua or 'ohua (meaning "seedling"). Moano in Hawaiian means pale-red color.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Parupeneus multifasciatus”.