Spotted Pufferfish
Canthigaster janthinoptera
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 46 diving areas across 28 countries and 7 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 15 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 20 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 240 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 240 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 38 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 5 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 40 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 12 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 28 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 35 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 17 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 8 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 7 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 12 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 7 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 11 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 37 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 19 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 5 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 28 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 3 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 40 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 25 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 36 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 62 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 14 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 14 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 4 records