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Habitat in featured records
Outer reef habitat; Reef rubble
Depths in featured records
10–19.4 m
Viewing activities
Scuba diving
When to look
The available records do not establish a reliable local viewing season. Use the map’s month filter to inspect dated observations; it does not predict an encounter.
WHERE HAS IT BEEN RECORDED?
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These dated records show past presence. They do not establish today’s abundance, guarantee a sighting, or describe the species’ entire range.
Hawaiʻi
Recorded here
2,250 OBIS records in the regional query · snapshot 2026-09-12.
OBIS · 2019-08-06NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish in the U.S. Pacific Islands · Diver initials TCW · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
