Banded Blenny
Salarias fasciatus
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
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Salarias
Where to Find
Found in 57 diving areas across 30 countries and 6 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 6 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 10 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 19 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 12 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 13 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 24 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 32 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 10 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 11 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 3 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 12 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 9 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 14 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 6 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 4 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 9 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 5 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 32 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 12 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 6 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 6 records
- Safaga, Egypt - 4 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 18 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 1 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 4 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 1 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 5 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 5 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 23 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 10 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 42 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 5 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 33 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 40 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 37 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 2 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 6 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 15 records