Ranger
Pseudocaranx dentex
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
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Pseudocaranx
Where to Find
Found in 25 diving areas across 15 countries and 6 regions.
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 90 records
- South Australia, Australia - 3 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 124 records
- Victoria, Australia - 39 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 199 records
- Goat Island & Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand - 804 records
- Kaikōura, New Zealand - 273 records
- Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand - 312 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 2 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Corsica, France - 1 records
- Azores, Portugal - 64 records
- Cabo de Palos, Spain - 3 records
- Canary Islands, Spain - 44 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 1 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 4 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 11 records
- Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile - 1 records