Common False Moray
Kaupichthys hyoproroides
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
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Chlopsidae
- Genus
- Kaupichthys
Where to Find
Found in 65 diving areas across 41 countries and 7 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 1 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 6 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 2 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 17 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 7 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 5 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 12 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 8 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 21 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 31 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 26 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 26 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 4 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 30 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 28 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 8 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 2 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 2 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 6 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 5 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 7 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 2 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 7 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 4 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 4 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 3 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 6 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 4 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 5 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 6 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 14 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 4 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 4 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 5 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 9 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 82 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 5 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 13 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 4 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 13 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 8 records
- Utila, Honduras - 13 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 2 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 10 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 7 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 7 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 6 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 6 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 7 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 4 records