Tigerfish
Bohadschia argus
Category: Sea Cucumbers
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Holothuriida
- Family
- Holothuriidae
- Genus
- Bohadschia
Where to Find
Found in 35 diving areas across 18 countries and 5 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 4 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 4 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 49 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 58 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 60 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 28 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 177 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 13 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 22 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 54 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 11 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 63 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 4 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 100 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 213 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 6 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 184 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 94 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 12 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 17 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 14 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 21 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 5 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 2 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 7 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 3 records