Banded Toby
Canthigaster valentini
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 58 diving areas across 28 countries and 6 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 3 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 5 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 16 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 64 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 12 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 9 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 13 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 48 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 31 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 42 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 2 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 99 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 95 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 151 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 21 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 6 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 9 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 12 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 13 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 37 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 20 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 48 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 7 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 22 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 9 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 10 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 6 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 56 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 29 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 29 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 51 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 9 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 10 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 63 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 15 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 74 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 71 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 11 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 71 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 14 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 17 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 52 records