#2325 · 🐟 fish

Checkerboard Wrasse

🇳🇱 Schaakbordlipvis ·Halichoeres hortulanus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Francois Libert · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © David Bygott · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © 104623964081378888743 · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Erik Schlögl · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Francois Libert · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Shimoni, Kenya:© mwanaisha_musa · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Red Sea, Red Sea, EG:© Tom Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Marsa 'Alam, Al Bahr al Ahmar, Egypt:© Francois Libert · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 28GF+3J7, Halaieb We Shalatein, Al Owina, El Qoseir, Red Sea Governorate 1931604, Egypt:© Tom Heijnen · CC BY 4.0
10. Direction Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands:© sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The checkerboard wrasse ( Halichoeres hortulanus ) is a fish belonging to the wrasse family. It is native to the area including the Indian Ocean to central Pacific Ocean.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,671iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,671 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1801 (225 years ago).