Indian Scad
Decapterus russelli
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 36 diving areas across 20 countries and 6 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 54 records
- South Australia, Australia - 1 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 44 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 9 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 3 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 7 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 11 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 7 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 2 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 11 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 11 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 2 records
- Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - 11 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 4 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 3 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 5 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 3 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 3 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 8 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records