Yellowstripe scad
Selaroides leptolepis
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
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Selaroides
Where to Find
Found in 14 diving areas across 8 countries and 4 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 104 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 62 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Dubai & Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 11 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 41 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 25 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 5 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 13 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 5 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 19 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 5 records