#2306 · 🐟 fish
Freckled Hawkfish
🇳🇱 Slanke Koraalklimmer ·Paracirrhites forsteri
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what is it?
The black-sided hawkfish , freckled hawkfish or Forster's hawkfish ( Paracirrhites forsteri ), is a species of hawkfish from the Indo-Pacific. It is occasionally found in the aquarium trade and is also of minor importance to local commercial fisheries. It grows to a total length of 22 cm (9 in).
base stats
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.
- 5,196 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1801 (225 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Freckled Hawkfish
- Nederlands
- Slanke Koraalklimmer
- scientific name
- Paracirrhites forsteri
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Centrarchiformes
- family
- Cirrhitidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,196
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1801 by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 67658, Wikidata Q959777, GBIF 5208733, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.