Striped Marlin
Kajikia audax
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
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Istiophoridae
- Genus
- Kajikia
Where to Find
Found in 19 diving areas across 13 countries and 4 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 54 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 2021 records
- Goat Island & Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand - 142 records
- Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand - 1642 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 2 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 6 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 16 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 5 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 66 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records