Striped catfish
Plotosus lineatus
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
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Plotosidae
- Genus
- Plotosus
Where to Find
Found in 55 diving areas across 27 countries and 7 regions.
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 84 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- South Australia, Australia - 1 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 99 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 5 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 4 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 6 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 8 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 6 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 4 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 39 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 8 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 4 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 15 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 4 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 39 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 8 records
- Larnaca, Cyprus - 1 records
- Paphos & Coral Bay, Cyprus - 1 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 8 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 1 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 4 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 3 records
- Sumatra, Indonesia - 2 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 11 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 11 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 3 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 3 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 2 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 30 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 41 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 5 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 35 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 10 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 43 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 1 records