The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·95832SpeciesActinopterygii52 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Ray-finned Fishes
  5. ›Spiny-rayed fishes
  6. ›Wrasses and allies
  7. ›False scorpionfishes, wrasses, and parrotfishes
  8. ›Wrasses and Parrotfishes
  9. ›Hogfishes, Cales and Tuskfishes
  10. ›Bodianus
Bay of Bengal Hogfish
Plate 1 of 4. (c) Pete McGee, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Pete McGee · via iNaturalist

Bay of Bengal Hogfish

Bodianus neilli

Bodianus neilli, the Bay of Bengal hogfish, is a species of wrasse in the family Labridae. It is found in the Indian Ocean in reefs off the coasts of the Maldives, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar and Thailand, although records from the Maldives are doubtful. Bodianus neilli was described as Cossyphus neilli in 1867 by Francis Day with the type locality given as Madras.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Bodianus neilli in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 95832.