Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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Goldbanded jobfish
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Photo: Hugues Evano (IFREMER, Délégation océan Indien (DOI), Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement (RBE), F-97420 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (view on Wikimedia Commons)

Goldbanded jobfish

Pristipomoides multidens

Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).

English
Goldbanded jobfish
Scientific
Pristipomoides multidens
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Groupers and snappers
Family
Lutjanidae (snappers)
Maximum size
Up to about 90 cm (total length); commonly 70 cm
Depth and habitat
On or near the bottom, recorded from 40 to 350 m (usually 125 to 275 m)
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2015

Description

A deep-water jobfish with a pinkish body, two blue-edged golden stripes across the snout and cheek and yellow chevrons on the top of the head. It schools over hard, uneven rocky bottoms and steep island slopes, usually at 125 to 275 m. It feeds on fish, crustaceans, squid and salps and is an excellent food fish.

In the Maldives

Taken in the Maldivian deep-slope handline fishery.

Sources

Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.