Sea chub
Kyphosus cinerascens
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
- Centrarchiformes
- Family
- Kyphosidae
- Genus
- Kyphosus
Where to Find
Found in 47 diving areas across 31 countries and 6 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 3 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 96 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 75 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 135 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 173 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 137 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 3 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 8 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 17 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 5 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 18 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 57 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 20 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 24 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 15 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 3 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 24 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 32 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 7 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 13 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 7 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 2 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 4 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 4 records