Flagfin Mojarra
Gerres filamentosus
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 39 diving areas across 21 countries and 5 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 30 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 14 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 40 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 48 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 3 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 11 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 5 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 8 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 10 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 1 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 14 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 14 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 33 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 8 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 23 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 20 records
- Subic Bay, Philippines - 37 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 22 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 3 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Hoi An & Cu Lao Cham, Vietnam - 6 records