Blue-banded Pualu
Acanthurus blochii
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
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Acanthurus
Where to Find
Found in 43 diving areas across 25 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Coral Sea, Australia - 37 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 159 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 22 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 41 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 32 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 17 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 19 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 15 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 15 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 25 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 8 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 55 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 14 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 75 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 13 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 8 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 24 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 148 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 25 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 78 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 39 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 232 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 5 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 25 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 34 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 4 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 33 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 6 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 6 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 15 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 26 records