Broom-tail File
Aluterus scriptus
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
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Aluterus
Where to Find
Found in 71 diving areas across 48 countries and 10 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 13 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 3 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 793 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 7 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 17 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 12 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 2 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 4 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 11 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 15 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 16 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 1 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 2 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 2 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 3 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 39 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 17 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 7 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 4 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 4 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 7 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 11 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 11 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 3 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 2 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 4 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 6 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 3 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Santiago, Cape Verde - 4 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 5 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 4 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe - 2 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 2 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Azores, Portugal - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 32 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 1 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 2 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 1 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 26 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 3 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 4 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 6 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 3 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 9 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 5 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 2 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records