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Fish Species of the Indo-Pacific
The largest biogeographic marine region, spanning the tropical Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific, and the connecting seas — home to the world's greatest coral reef diversity.
1,161
Total Species
122
Threatened
253
Edible
18
Countries
Solitary duckbill eel
Nettastoma solitarium
LC
🌊 Marine
Sooty dragonfish
Photonectes margarita
LC
🌊 Marine
South Pacific Slender Barracudina
Stemonosudis molesta
LC
🌊 Marine
Southern barracudina
Magnisudis prionosa
LC
🌊 Marine
Southern bastard codling
Pseudophycis barbata
🌊 Marine
Southern Cut-throat Eel
Histiobranchus australis
DD
🌊 Marine
Southern driftfish
Icichthys australis
🌊 Marine
Southern fintail snipe eel
Avocettina acuticeps
LC
🌊 Marine
Southern flounder
Paralichthys lethostigma
NT
🌊 Marine
Southern lanternfish
Lampanyctus australis
LC
🌊 Marine
Southern lightfish
Ichthyococcus australis
LC
🌊 Marine
Southern Messmate
Echiodon pukaki
DD
🌊 Marine
Southern pigfish
Congiopodus leucopaecilus
🌊 Marine
Southern rays bream
Brama australis
🌊 Marine
Southern seadevil
Ceratias tentaculatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Southern whiptail
Coelorinchus australis
🌊 Marine
Spangled tubeshoulder
Persparsia kopua
🌊 Marine
Sparing
Bathophilus filifer
LC
🌊 Marine
Spark Lanternfish
Diaphus kora
DD
🌊 Marine
Spearfish remora
Remora brachyptera
LC
🌊 Marine
Speckled dwarfgoby
Eviota sparsa
LC
🌊 Marine
Spectacled triplefin
Ruanoho whero
LC
🌊 Marine
Spiky oreo
Neocyttus rhomboidalis
🌊 Marine
Spinner shark
Carcharhinus brevipinna
VU
🌊 Marine
Spiny pipehorse
Solegnathus spinosissimus
DD
🌊 Marine
Spiny-back eel
Notacanthus sexspinis
🌊 Marine
Spinyfin velifer
Metavelifer multiradiatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Splendid alfonsino
Beryx splendens
LC
🌊 Marine
Splendid sea perch
Callanthias allporti
🌊 Marine
Splendid threadfin
Filimanus perplexa
🌊 Marine
Spotfin burrfish
Chilomycterus reticulatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Spotless smooth-hound
Mustelus griseus
EN
🌊 Marine
Spotlight lanternfish
Diaphus lucidus
LC
🌊 Marine
Spotted barracudina
Arctozenus risso
LC
🌊 Marine
Spotted seahorse
Hippocampus kuda
VU
🌊 Marine
Spotted tinselfish
Xenolepidichthys dalgleishi
LC
🌊 Marine
Spotted wobbegong
Orectolobus maculatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Spotty
Notolabrus celidotus
LC
🌊 Marine
Spurcheek lanternfish
Bolinichthys photothorax
LC
🌊 Marine
Squaretail coralgrouper
Plectropomus areolatus
VU
🌊 Marine
Squashed face rattail
Nezumia namatahi
🌊 Marine
Stareye lightfish
Pollichthys mauli
LC
🌊 Marine
Stargazing seadevil
Ceratias uranoscopus
LC
🌊 Marine
Staring pearleye
Scopelarchus guentheri
LC
🌊 Marine
Starry smooth-head
Photostylus pycnopterus
LC
🌊 Marine
Starry toado
Arothron firmamentum
LC
🌊 Marine
Stemonosudis Siliquiventer
Stemonosudis siliquiventer
LC
🌊 Marine
Stocky hawkfish
Cirrhitus pinnulatus
LC
🌊 Marine