Bluefish
Kyphosus vaigiensis
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 51 diving areas across 30 countries and 9 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 11 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 72 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 99 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 99 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 3 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 9 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 30 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 298 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 170 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 38 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 10 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 11 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 9 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 9 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 9 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 6 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 23 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 115 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 9 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 16 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 30 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 5 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 7 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 3 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 6 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 5 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 1 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records