Bucktooth
Calotomus carolinus
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
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Scaridae
- Genus
- Calotomus
Where to Find
Found in 35 diving areas across 25 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 6 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 6 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 29 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 5 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 12 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 11 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 51 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 6 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 156 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 50 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 24 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 12 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 14 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 4 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 7 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 49 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 47 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 20 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 23 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 10 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 12 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 6 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 7 records