Blackbar Filefish
Pervagor janthinosoma
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
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Pervagor
Where to Find
Found in 41 diving areas across 24 countries and 6 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 4 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 5 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 25 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 30 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 29 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 24 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 31 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 17 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 38 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 36 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 14 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 14 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 7 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 2 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 8 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 44 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 10 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 55 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 5 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 31 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 31 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 29 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 2 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 3 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 49 records