Spitlure Frogfish
Antennarius striatus
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
- Lophiiformes
- Family
- Antennariidae
- Genus
- Antennarius
Where to Find
Found in 44 diving areas across 29 countries and 8 regions.
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 186 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 321 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 9 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 1 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 2 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 4 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 1 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 9 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 9 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 2 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 1 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 1 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 1 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 4 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 4 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 5 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 5 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 1 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 1 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 2 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 7 records
- São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe - 4 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 2 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 13 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 4 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 2 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 6 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 22 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records