Crested Sabretooth Blenny
Petroscirtes mitratus
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
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Petroscirtes
Where to Find
Found in 43 diving areas across 27 countries and 6 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 6 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 5 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 14 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 37 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 37 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 6 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 104 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 31 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 5 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 105 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 5 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 4 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 7 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 7 records
- Safaga, Egypt - 5 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 8 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 2 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records