Indo-Pacific sergeant
Abudefduf vaigiensis
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
- Ovalentaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Abudefduf
Where to Find
Found in 48 diving areas across 28 countries and 6 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 4 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 2 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 50 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 176 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 20 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 11 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 7 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 12 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 10 records
- Santiago, Cape Verde - 1 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 9 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 8 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 8 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 40 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 24 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 70 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 5 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 4 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 1 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 33 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 21 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 10 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 25 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 1 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 3 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 6 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 24 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 34 records