Banded-tail Coral-cod
Cephalopholis urodeta
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
- Perciformes
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Cephalopholis
Where to Find
Found in 58 diving areas across 28 countries and 5 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 7 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 7 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 61 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 16 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 17 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 39 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 40 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 553 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 11 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 16 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 73 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 11 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 28 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 33 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 61 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 29 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 59 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 6 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 56 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 88 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 67 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 128 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 20 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 29 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1506 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 7 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 11 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 129 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 56 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 103 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 7 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 23 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 11 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 7 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 6 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 10 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 6 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 11 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 6 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 10 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 150 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 20 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 55 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 5 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 79 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 86 records