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title: "Manybar Goatfish"
description: "Parupeneus multifasciatus — Peixes. Parupeneus multifasciatus, the manybar goatfish, is a species of goatfish native to the eastern Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean where it is found from Christmas Island to the Hawaiian Islands and from southern Japan to Lord Howe Island."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/manybar-goatfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Manybar Goatfish

> Parupeneus multifasciatus — Peixes. Parupeneus multifasciatus, the manybar goatfish, is a species of goatfish native to the eastern Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean where it is found from Christmas Island to the Hawaiian Islands and from southern Japan to Lord Howe Island.

- Scientific name: *Parupeneus multifasciatus*
- Category: `fish` (Peixes)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 3838
- Wikidata: [Q2180413](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2180413)
- iNaturalist taxon: [131234](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/131234)

## Names

- en: Manybar Goatfish
- de: Vielstreifen-Barbe
- es: Chivo Bandeado
- fr: Rouget-barbet à trois selles

## Countries with the most observations

US (1416), ID (301), AU (254), PF (161), FJ (152), PH (108), NC (86), JP (82), CK (55), MY (54), VU (43), TW (39)

## Summary

Parupeneus multifasciatus, the manybar goatfish, is a species of goatfish native to the eastern Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean where it is found from Christmas Island to the Hawaiian Islands and from southern Japan to Lord Howe Island.
Its Hawaiian name is moano-nui-ka-lehua (meaning "great moano of the lehua"), and the juveniles are called 'ahua or 'ohua (meaning "seedling").  Moano in Hawaiian means pale-red color.

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

## Photo

![Manybar Goatfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/manybar-goatfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Justin Philbois · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256465486

## Machine access

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