Common Coral Trout
Plectropomus leopardus
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 36 diving areas across 23 countries and 5 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 274 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 313 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 27 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 41 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 46 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 9 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 3 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 43 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 63 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 3 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 15 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 6 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 24 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 2 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 10 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 4 records