Cluck
Pareques acuminatus
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
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Sciaenidae
- Genus
- Pareques
Where to Find
Found in 45 diving areas across 26 countries and 4 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 3 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 1 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 6 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 724 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 15 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 6 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 13 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 19 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 19 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 14 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 12 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 2 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 9 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 1 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 2 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 7 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 5 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 6 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 27 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 5 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 28 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 34 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 39 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 3 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 24 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 22 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 5 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 5 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 11 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 36 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 15 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 9 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 7 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 5 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 4 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 13 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 14 records
- Arraial do Cabo, Brazil - 102 records
- Fernando de Noronha, Brazil - 21 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 8 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 8 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records