Crazy Fish
Butis butis
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
- Gobiiformes
- Family
- Eleotridae
- Genus
- Butis
Where to Find
Found in 30 diving areas across 15 countries and 4 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 52 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 26 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 48 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 4 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Koh Rong Archipelago, Cambodia - 2 records
- Koh Tang & Offshore, Cambodia - 2 records
- Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia - 3 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 8 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 4 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 8 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 6 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 6 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 21 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 9 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 5 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 2 records
- Subic Bay, Philippines - 13 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 17 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 12 records
- Hoi An & Cu Lao Cham, Vietnam - 2 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 4 records