Goldspot Pigfish, Bodianus perditio (Quoy & Gaimard 1834)
A Goldspot Pigfish, Bodianus perditio, at North Solitary Island, New South Wales, January 2001. Source: Ian V. Shaw / Reef Life Survey. License: CC BY Attribution
A large orange-red pigfish with golden-orange spots on the head and anterior body, a yellow spot or bar on the middle of the back followed by a large oval black patch below the soft dorsal-fin base, a large black blotch on the spinous dorsal fin.
Video of a Goldspot Pigfish at Cook Island and Julian Rocks, New South Wales.
A Goldspot Pigfish at Flinders Reef, Moreton Bay, Queensland - depth 12 m.
Goldspot Pigfish, Bodianus perditio (Quoy & Gaimard 1834)
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Distribution |
Recorded in Australia from One Tree island in the southenr Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, to Montague Island, New South Wales; also at Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island in the Tasman Sea. The species does not occur on Australia's Indian Ocean coast. Elsewhere, the species occurs in the tropical western-central Pacific (antiequatorial) from New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, Tonga and Rapa east to Tuamotu Archipelago and Gambier Islands; Taiwan north to southern Japan. The species is common at New Caledonia. Inhabits coral and rocky reefs, often over sand or rubble in deeper waters. |
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Feeding |
Feeds mostly on benthic invertebrates such as molluscs and crustaceans. |
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Remarks |
Randall & Victor (2013) determined Bodianus astrolumbus to be a valid species found in the southwest Indian Ocean, and that Goldspot Pigfish, B. perditio, did not occur in the Indian Ocean. |
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Etymology |
The specific name perditio is from the Latin 'perditis' (destruction) in reference to the precarious position in which the vessel 'Astrolabe' found itself around the time the holotype of this species was collected. |
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Species Citation |
Labrus perditio Quoy & Gaimard, 1834. Voyage de découvertes de "l'Astrolabe" Zoologie 9(3): 702, pl. 20(4). Type locality: Tongatabu, Tonga. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2019 |
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Resources |
Goldspot Pigfish, Bodianus perditio (Quoy & Gaimard 1834)
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