Blacksaddled coral grouper
Plectropomus laevis
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
- Perciformes
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Plectropomus
Where to Find
Found in 32 diving areas across 22 countries and 5 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 81 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 17 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 5 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 20 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 60 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 25 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 50 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 8 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 7 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 11 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 11 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 109 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 10 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 14 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 3 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 6 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 127 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 25 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 7 records