Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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Lavender jobfish
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Photo: David Starr Jordan / Barton Warren Evermann / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain (view on Wikimedia Commons)Historical illustration. Source: Jordan, David Starr; Evermann, Barton Warren (1905) Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, With a General Account of the Fish Fauna, Bulletin of the United State; Commons file: Pristipomoides sieboldii.jpeg

Lavender jobfish

Pristipomoides sieboldii

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

English
Lavender jobfish
Scientific
Pristipomoides sieboldii
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Groupers and snappers
Family
Lutjanidae (snappers)
Maximum size
Up to about 79 cm (total length); commonly 40 cm; max. published weight 8.4 kg
Depth and habitat
Near the bottom and in the water column above it, recorded from 100 to 360 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2015

Description

A silvery deep-water jobfish with a lavender sheen, dark spots on top of the head and an orange-edged dorsal fin, reaching about 79 cm. It lives over rocky bottoms, mostly at 180 to 270 m.

Sources

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