Barred Blenny
Cirripectes polyzona
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 30 diving areas across 21 countries and 5 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 61 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 49 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 31 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 14 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 10 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 88 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 9 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 11 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 2 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 49 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 18 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 17 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 26 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 10 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 3 records