False brill
Pseudorhombus arsius
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
- Pleuronectiformes
- Family
- Paralichthyidae
- Genus
- Pseudorhombus
Where to Find
Found in 26 diving areas across 15 countries and 4 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 41 records
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 418 records
- South Australia, Australia - 1 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 528 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 4 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 20 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 11 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 5 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 6 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 4 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 5 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 5 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 6 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 5 records
- Koh Tao, Thailand - 1 records