bluefin filefish
Balistoides viridescens
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
- Balistidae
- Genus
- Balistoides
Where to Find
Found in 52 diving areas across 29 countries and 5 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 8 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 20 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 16 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 5 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 22 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 8 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 39 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 29 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 3 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 39 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 58 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 7 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 30 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 18 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 17 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 15 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 4 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 8 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 7 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 100 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 66 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 5 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 3 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 1 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 3 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 14 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 3 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 3 records