Anchor trunkfish
Choerodon anchorago
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
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Choerodon
Where to Find
Found in 31 diving areas across 16 countries and 5 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 54 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 105 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 137 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 26 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 29 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 22 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 26 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 8 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 8 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 10 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 4 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 3 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 3 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 10 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 4 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 9 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 9 records