Bridled Goby
Gnatholepis cauerensis
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
- Gobiiformes
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Genus
- Gnatholepis
Where to Find
Found in 52 diving areas across 34 countries and 9 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 7 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 7 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 12 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 22 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 1 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 9 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 12 records
- Utila, Honduras - 12 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 3 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 30 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 12 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 17 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 23 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 13 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 7 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 6 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 8 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 29 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 4 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 9 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 7 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 52 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 15 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 39 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 36 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 2 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 8 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 65 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 34 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 29 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 29 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 4 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 4 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 19 records