During the last few decades, several studies relating to coral reef fishes in Vietnam have been conducted and published for individual coral reefs along the coast and offshore islands. However, no attempts have been made to compile a list of all known reef fish species from the area or to examine patterns of reef fish biodiversity across Vietnam. To address this issue, we assembled a comprehensive species distribution data set of coral reef fishes from the 23 major locations of coral reefs in the coastal waters of Vietnam. A total of 1049 species belonging to 362 genera and 91 families of reef associated fishes are currently known from the area. The 14 most-speciose families, which account for 67.8% of the total reef fish fauna, were Pomacentridae (110 species), Gobiidae (107), Labridae (100), Apogonidae (60), Serranidae (47), Blenniidae (46), Chaetodontidae (41), Scaridae (36), Scorpaenidae (32), Acanthuridae (30), Muraenidae (29), Lutjanidae (26), Carangidae (26), and Holocentridae (21). The central to southeast Vietnam (from Con Co island to Con Dao islands) supported higher species numbers compared to those on the western side of the Tonkin Gulf and the Thailand Gulf. A zoogeographic analysis reveals three distinct groups of reef fishes, in which the southern area supported 3–4 times higher numbers than the northern area and the southwestern area.

在过去的几十年中，针对越南沿海和近海岛屿的珊瑚礁进行了几项有关越南珊瑚礁鱼类的研究，并发表了这些研究。但是，尚未尝试编制该地区所有已知礁鱼种类的清单或检查越南各地礁鱼生物多样性的模式。为了解决这个问题，我们收集了越南沿海水域23个主要珊瑚礁位置的珊瑚礁鱼类物种分布综合数据集。目前从该地区已知属于362属和91个与珊瑚有关的鱼类的共1049种。这14个最特殊的科占珊瑚礁动物区系总数的67.8％，分别为尖角ae科（110种），戈壁科（107），唇形科（100），po足科（60），锯齿科（47），B科（46）。 ，et科（41），Scar科（36），蝎科（32），棘足科（30）、,科（29），鹿角科（26），（科（26）和H科（21）。与东京湾和泰国湾西侧的物种数量相比，越南中部至东南部（从康科岛到康道岛）的物种数量更高。动物地理学分析揭示了三类不同的珊瑚礁鱼类，其中南部地区的鱼类数量是北部地区和西南地区的3-4倍。