Needlenose
Scomberesox saurus
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
- Beloniformes
- Family
- Scomberesocidae
- Genus
- Scomberesox
Where to Find
Found in 19 diving areas across 15 countries and 7 regions.
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 72 records
- Victoria, Australia - 12 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 9 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 1 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 3 records
- Vis & Biševo, Croatia - 1 records
- Corsica, France - 2 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 5 records
- Naples & Campania, Italy - 3 records
- Azores, Portugal - 5 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 1 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 2 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 1 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 3 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 36 records
- Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile - 1 records