Common Atlantic Grenadier
Nezumia aequalis
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
- Gadiformes
- Family
- Macrouridae
- Genus
- Nezumia
Where to Find
Found in 31 diving areas across 25 countries and 5 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 3 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 4 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 2 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 8 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 3 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 20 records
- Varadero, Cuba - 2 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 5 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 5 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 4 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 1 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 2 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 6 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 1 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 16 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 5 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 1 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 4 records
- Al Hoceima, Morocco - 97 records
- Azores, Portugal - 68 records
- Balearic Islands, Spain - 103 records
- Cabo de Palos, Spain - 5 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 1 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 1 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 2 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 34 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 2 records