Rainbow
Scarus guacamaia
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Scaridae
- Genus
- Scarus
Where to Find
Found in 33 diving areas across 20 countries and 5 regions.
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 3 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 3 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 1589 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 7 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 4 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 10 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 8 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 1 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 9 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 11 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 5 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 1 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 1 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 5 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 21 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 22 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 2 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 1 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 10 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 10 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 7 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 3 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 1 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 1 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 8 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 7 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 10 records