Chestnut Blenny
Cirripectes castaneus
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
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Cirripectes
Where to Find
Found in 47 diving areas across 24 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 31 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 31 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 4 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 243 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 265 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 269 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 21 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 33 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 40 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 4 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 10 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 14 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 24 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 13 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 5 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 6 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 7 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 19 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 314 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 19 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 12 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 16 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 1 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 16 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 16 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 74 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 5 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 30 records