Brim
Kyphosus sectatrix
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 38 diving areas across 25 countries and 7 regions.
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 4 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 2 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 3 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 3638 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 2 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 16 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 2 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 2 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 3 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 2 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 14 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 10 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 3 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 38 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 36 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 120 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 159 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 6 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 1 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 21 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 20 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 2 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 2 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 12 records
- Azores, Portugal - 4 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 2 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 2 records
- Arraial do Cabo, Brazil - 44 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 2 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 7 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 2 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 3 records