Sheephead
Microspathodon chrysurus
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
- Ovalentaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Microspathodon
Where to Find
Found in 54 diving areas across 30 countries and 4 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 13 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 84 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 37 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 2996 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 66 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 34 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 29 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 29 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 30 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 949 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 616 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 93 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 197 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 178 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 228 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 10 records
- Varadero, Cuba - 15 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 18 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 23 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 65 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 38 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 45 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 45 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 175 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 131 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 102 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 8 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 486 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 748 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 782 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 155 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 8 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 8 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 45 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 45 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 13 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 37 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 1423 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 794 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 330 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 285 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 184 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 26 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 129 records
- Utila, Honduras - 284 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 72 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 1 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 29 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 124 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 301 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 110 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 12 records