Dorado
Coryphaena hippurus
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
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Coryphaenidae
- Genus
- Coryphaena
Where to Find
Found in 90 diving areas across 56 countries and 11 regions.
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 88 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 169 records
- Victoria, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 41 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 8 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 68 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 5 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 15 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 7 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 34 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 2 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 495 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 12 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 10 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 6 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 32 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 11 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 18 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 9 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 3 records
- Varadero, Cuba - 20 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 6 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 7 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 13 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 5 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 3 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 4 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 12 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 21 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 40 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 16 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 13 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 3 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 4 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 3 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 65 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 23 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 7 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 7 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 29 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 31 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 6 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 46 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 46 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 16 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Sal, Cape Verde - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 80 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 12 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 378 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 42 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 76 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 102 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 155 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 4409 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 336 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Vis & Biševo, Croatia - 1 records
- Corsica, France - 1 records
- Naples & Campania, Italy - 2 records
- Ustica, Italy - 2 records
- Azores, Portugal - 91 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 27 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 8 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 27 records
- Hawaii, United States - 38 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 4 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 2 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 54 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 70 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 4 records
- Mancora & North Coast, Peru - 1 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 3 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records
- Koh Tao, Thailand - 1 records