Ocean Triggerfish
Canthidermis maculata
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
- Canthidermis
Where to Find
Found in 47 diving areas across 35 countries and 10 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 4 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 4 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 3 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 3 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 5 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 2 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 1 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 1 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 13 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 17 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 2 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 176 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 5 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 2 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 6 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 4 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 51 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 252 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 42 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 129 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 32 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 18 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Mar del Plata, Argentina - 1 records
- Fernando de Noronha, Brazil - 13 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 4 records