Bleeker's Surgeonfish
Acanthurus mata
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 40 diving areas across 27 countries and 5 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 5 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 3 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 324 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 5 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 23 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 5 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 4 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 4 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 56 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 10 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 2 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 5 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 18 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 5 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 4 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 2 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 15 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 15 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 15 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 7 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 1 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 46 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 57 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 3 records