Viperfish
Chauliodus sloani
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
- Stomiiformes
- Family
- Stomiidae
- Genus
- Chauliodus
Where to Find
Found in 54 diving areas across 34 countries and 8 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 28 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 106 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 2 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 1 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 4 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 3 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 3 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 1 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 3 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 1 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 8 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 454 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 2 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 3 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 3 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 1 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 3 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 6 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 2 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 2 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 2 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 4 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 28 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 14 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 17 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Al Hoceima, Morocco - 34 records
- Algarve & Berlengas, Portugal - 4 records
- Azores, Portugal - 4 records
- Balearic Islands, Spain - 54 records
- Cabo de Palos, Spain - 1 records
- Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 18 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 1 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 2 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 3 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 2 records