Black triggerfish
Odonus niger
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
- Odonus
Where to Find
Found in 47 diving areas across 30 countries and 6 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 10 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 1 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 4 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 8 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 1 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 5 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 143 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 7 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 52 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 14 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 19 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 7 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 4 records
- Eilat, Israel - 2 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 4 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 48 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 47 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 3 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 6 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 19 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 23 records