Flowery Flounder
Bothus mancus
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
- Pleuronectiformes
- Family
- Bothidae
- Genus
- Bothus
Where to Find
Found in 35 diving areas across 27 countries and 8 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 3 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 5 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 1 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 4 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 22 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 7 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 9 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 5 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 60 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 2 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 6 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 6 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 60 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 9 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records