Flat Needlefish
Ablennes hians
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Family
- Belonidae
- Genus
- Ablennes
Where to Find
Found in 56 diving areas across 40 countries and 9 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 1 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 1 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 2 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 9 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 1 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 3 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 3 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 3 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 3 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 3 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 3 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 3 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 3 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 4 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 5 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 1 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 4 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 6 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 2 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 4 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 3 records
- Phoenix Islands, Kiribati - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 3 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 7 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 11 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 48 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 4 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 5 records
- Mancora & North Coast, Peru - 9 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 3 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 10 records