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Habitat in featured records
Rock and boulder habitat
Depths in featured records
5.5–19.6 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
3,833 OBIS records in the regional query · snapshot 2026-09-12.
OBIS · 2019-07-26NOAA 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 LER · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
OBIS · 2019-07-20NOAA 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 TW_ · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
