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Cirrhitus
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Cirrhitus

Cirrhitus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, hawkfishes from the family Cirrhitidae. The species in this genus are found on tropical reefs worldwide.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Giant Hawkfish

speciesCirrhitus rivulatus

Stocky Hawkfish

speciesCirrhitus pinnulatus

Red Sea Stocky Hawkfish

speciesCirrhitus spilotoceps

West African Hawkfish

speciesCirrhitus atlanticus

Whitedotted Hawkfish

speciesCirrhitus albopunctatus

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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 52479.