Sharpnose Pufferfish
Canthigaster rostrata
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 63 diving areas across 34 countries and 5 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 12 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 8 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 3 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 12 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 20 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 5673 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 13 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 16 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 29 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 55 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 53 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 53 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 27 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 4 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 1866 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 1602 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 3 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 24 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 27 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 2 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 20 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 5 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 7 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 27 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 4 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 8 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 5 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 11 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 11 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 11 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 9 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 9 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 3 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 1237 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 869 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 865 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 13 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 6 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 6 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 10 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 7 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 21 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 3 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 1721 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 1972 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 9 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 37 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 7 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 9 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 27 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 5 records
- Utila, Honduras - 38 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Sal, Cape Verde - 2 records
- Santiago, Cape Verde - 1 records
- São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe - 1 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 15 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 16 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 2 records
- Malpelo Island, Colombia - 37 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 58 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 3 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 13 records