Kingston
Decapterus macarellus
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
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Decapterus
Where to Find
Found in 74 diving areas across 51 countries and 9 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 11 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 11 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 3 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 196 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 1 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 7 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 4 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 25 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 21 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 1 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 1 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 13 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 7 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 1 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 10 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 10 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 74 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 56 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 56 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 10 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 10 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 8 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 60 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 66 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 25 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 122 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 23 records
- Utila, Honduras - 25 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 78 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 78 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 3 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 2 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 10 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 3 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 16 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 3 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Santiago, Cape Verde - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 17 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 42 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 13 records
- São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe - 2 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 165 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 5 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 6 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 76 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 16 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 9 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 11 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 3 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 3 records