Salmon
Elagatis bipinnulata
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
- Elagatis
Where to Find
Found in 76 diving areas across 50 countries and 10 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 3 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 34 records
- Victoria, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 48 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 8 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 4 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 12 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 2 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 12 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 20 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 30 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 2 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 1 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 8 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 8 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 5 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 379 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 79 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 78 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 1 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 128 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 1 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 3 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 6 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 6 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 23 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 3 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 28 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 4 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 327 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 42 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 3 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 93 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 91 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Azores, Portugal - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 22 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 5 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 17 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 5 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 3 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 3 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 7 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 3 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 9 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 2 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 2 records