Butterfish
Eucinostomus melanopterus
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
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Gerreidae
- Genus
- Eucinostomus
Where to Find
Found in 34 diving areas across 22 countries and 5 regions.
- Bimini, Bahamas - 6 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 12 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 12 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 1 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 11 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 13 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 14 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 1 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 1 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 13 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 3 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 10 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 16 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 12 records
- Utila, Honduras - 17 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 2 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 191 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 191 records
- Santiago, Cape Verde - 2 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 10 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 4 records
- Arraial do Cabo, Brazil - 54 records
- Fernando de Noronha, Brazil - 13 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 4 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 9 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 11 records