Pinktail triggerfish
Melichthys vidua
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
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Balistidae
- Genus
- Melichthys
Where to Find
Found in 37 diving areas across 22 countries and 6 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 3 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 8 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 10 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 21 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 18 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 74 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 14 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 23 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 86 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 20 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 38 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 110 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 45 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 69 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 27 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1383 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 27 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 68 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 18 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 25 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 30 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 7 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 11 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 5 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 5 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 22 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 124 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 144 records