Lattice monocle bream
Scolopsis taenioptera
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
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Nemipteridae
- Genus
- Scolopsis
Where to Find
Found in 21 diving areas across 11 countries and 4 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Koh Rong Archipelago, Cambodia - 2 records
- Koh Tang & Offshore, Cambodia - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 8 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 6 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 1 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 36 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 31 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 3 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 7 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 20 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 6 records
- Koh Tao, Thailand - 5 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records