Polkadot Cod
Plectropomus areolatus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: VU - Vulnerable - facing a high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Plectropomus
Where to Find
Found in 24 diving areas across 17 countries and 5 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 7 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 7 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 7 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 11 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 26 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 17 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 11 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 10 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 11 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 12 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 12 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 7 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Port Sudan & Sanganeb, Sudan - 6 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 5 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 1 records