Ambon Pufferfish
Canthigaster amboinensis
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
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Canthigaster
Where to Find
Found in 26 diving areas across 22 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 4 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 7 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 3 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 53 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 4 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 7 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 7 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 18 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 20 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records