Spangled emperor
Lethrinus nebulosus
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
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Lethrinidae
- Genus
- Lethrinus
Where to Find
Found in 50 diving areas across 30 countries and 6 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 30 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 62 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 14 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 6 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 19 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 11 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 126 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 4 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 10 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 3 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 54 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 17 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 52 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 192 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 9 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 126 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 12 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 4 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 4 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Dubai & Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 5 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 3 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 5 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 3 records