Bodianus macrourus

The Black-banded hogfish (Bodianus macrourus) is a species of wrasse from the genus Bodianus.[2] It is restricted to a small area in the Western Indian Ocean. The only known locations are Mauritius, Réunion and St. Brandon, where it occurs near tropical reefs at a depth of 10-40 meters below surface.[2]

Bodianus macrourus
Bodianus macrourus in Zoo Duisburg
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Bodianus
Species:
B. macrourus
Binomial name
Bodianus macrourus
(Lacépède, 1801)
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Labrus macrourus (Lacepède, 1801)
  • Lepidaplois hirsutus (Lacépède, 1801)
  • Labrus hirsutus (Lacepède, 1801)
  • Labrus rubrolineatus (Lacepède, 1801)
  • Crenilabrus croceus (Lesson, 1828)
  • Crenilabrus chabrolii (Lesson, 1831)
  • Labrus spilonotus (Bennett, 1836)
  • Cossyphus maldat (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Cossyphus macrurus (Günther, 1862)

The species reaches a length of 32 cm. Because of the limited range in the wild, it occurs only rarely in the fish trade.[2]

References
  1. "Bodianus macrourus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Bodianus macrourus" in FishBase. March 2022 version.
  3. "ITIS - Report: Bodianus macrourus". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 27 March 2022.


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