Distribution: from the Red Sea and Eastern Africa to Southern Japan, Hawaii, Marquesas, Australes and New Caledonia.
Sometimes confused with Paracirrhites arcatus.
at Nungwi Beach (Zanzibar)
at Embudu (Male Atolls) © maminise
at Cap Malheureux (Mauritius) © mcpeff
at The Canyon (Egypt) © anne
at Coraya Bay (Egypt) © lesli
at Ras Um Sid (Egypt) © anne
at Wakatobi Resort (Indonesia) © nst56
at Turtle Town (Maui)
at N’Gouja (Mayotte)
at Blue Hole (Egypt)
at Bunaken (Indonesia)
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