Flasher
Lobotes surinamensis
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
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Lobotidae
- Genus
- Lobotes
Where to Find
Found in 33 diving areas across 29 countries and 9 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 2 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 1 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 27 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 206 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 42 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 6 records
- São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe - 1 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 36 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Corsica, France - 1 records
- Cabo de Palos, Spain - 2 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 2 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 1 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 5 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 66 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 1 records