High Hat Triplefin
Enneapterygius tutuilae
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
- Tripterygiidae
- Genus
- Enneapterygius
Where to Find
Found in 45 diving areas across 28 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 30 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 44 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 5 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 9 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 22 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 18 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 7 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 8 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 6 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 8 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 17 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 20 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 31 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 6 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 21 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 3 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 3 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 7 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 5 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 4 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 4 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 3 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 6 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 8 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 11 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 3 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 10 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 2 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 54 records