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title: "Freckled Hawkfish"
description: "Paracirrhites forsteri — Peixes. The black-side hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri), freckled hawkfish or Forster's hawkfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a hawkfish belonging to the family Cirrhitidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/freckled-hawkfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Freckled Hawkfish

> Paracirrhites forsteri — Peixes. The black-side hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri), freckled hawkfish or Forster's hawkfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a hawkfish belonging to the family Cirrhitidae.

- Scientific name: *Paracirrhites forsteri*
- Category: `fish` (Peixes)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 5039
- Wikidata: [Q959777](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q959777)
- iNaturalist taxon: [67658](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/67658)

## Names

- en: Freckled Hawkfish
- de: Gestreifter Korallenwächter
- es: Halcón de Forster
- fr: Poisson-faucon à taches de rousseur
- nl: Slanke koraalklimmer

## Countries with the most observations

EG (882), US (722), ID (629), MV (285), FJ (239), AU (121), NC (82), PH (79), PF (69), VU (65), SA (59), TZ (59)

## Summary

The black-side hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri), freckled hawkfish or Forster's hawkfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a hawkfish belonging to the family Cirrhitidae. It is 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).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackside_hawkfish

## Photo

![Freckled Hawkfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/freckled-hawkfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90524949

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/freckled-hawkfish?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).