Broad Shad
Gerres cinereus
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
- Gerres
Where to Find
Found in 44 diving areas across 23 countries and 4 regions.
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 6 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 392 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 2 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 14 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 12 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 12 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 101 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 68 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 9 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 12 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 7 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 9 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 2 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 141 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 87 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 110 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 9 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 192 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 99 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 22 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 177 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 2 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 166 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 15 records
- Utila, Honduras - 172 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 37 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 34 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 7 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 26 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 10 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 3 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 20 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 33 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 6 records
- Lima & Palomino Islands, Peru - 1 records
- Mancora & North Coast, Peru - 2 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 7 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 21 records