Peppered Squirrelfish
Sargocentron punctatissimum
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
- Holocentriformes
- Family
- Holocentridae
- Genus
- Sargocentron
Where to Find
Found in 52 diving areas across 30 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 14 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 14 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 4 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 43 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 11 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 7 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 7 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 35 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 35 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 6 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 33 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 45 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 6 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 3 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 6 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 7 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 12 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 9 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 24 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 4 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 6 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 19 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 7 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 12 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 403 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 9 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 17 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 34 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 34 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 75 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 23 records