Bodianus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126017ITIS 170482key worms:126017

2026-08-05: itis_id 170482 via WoRMS external link

Bodianus is a genus of fishes in the family of wrasses, the Labridae, which are commonly known as hogfishes. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 279 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1955 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

279
observations: 279
records: 1955–2022
years: 1
datasets: 2
species under it

Photo · Leonard Low from Australia · CC BY 2.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Bodianus pulcher most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126017")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 2 taxa · Bodianus pulcher most observed

sp Bodianus pulcher California sheephead278
sp Bodianus diplotaenia Mexican hogfish1

Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Clepticini

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Ieuan Jones · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Labrus bergylta · source
Photo · Leonard Low from Australia · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Bodianus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354829890

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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