Giant trevally
Caranx ignobilis
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
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Caranx
Where to Find
Found in 52 diving areas across 31 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 6 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 6 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 6 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 7 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 4 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 14 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 3 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 5 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 1 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 150 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 4 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 8 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 20 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 162 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 63 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 34 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 46 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 5 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 14 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 58 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 3 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 2 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 5 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 3 records
- Subic Bay, Philippines - 11 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 12 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 13 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records