California Yellowtail
Seriola lalandi
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
- Seriola
Where to Find
Found in 21 diving areas across 13 countries and 8 regions.
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 187 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 3805 records
- Victoria, Australia - 10 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 1550 records
- Goat Island & Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand - 1038 records
- Kaikōura, New Zealand - 202 records
- Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand - 1548 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 3 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 8 records
- Ulleungdo, South Korea - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 27208 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1784 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 6 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 113 records
- Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile - 6 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 3 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records