Marine life identification guide > Black-sided hawkfish

Paracirrhites forsteri

Black-sided hawkfish

Distribution: from the Red Sea and Eastern Africa to Southern Japan, Hawaii, Marquesas, Australes and New Caledonia.

Sometimes confused with Paracirrhites arcatus.

Paracirrhites forsteri snorkeling pictures

at Turtle Town (Maui)

at N’Gouja (Mayotte)

at Blue Hole (Egypt)

at Bunaken (Indonesia)

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