Banded Blue Sprat
Spratelloides gracilis
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
- Clupeiformes
- Family
- Spratelloididae
- Genus
- Spratelloides
Where to Find
Found in 29 diving areas across 19 countries and 6 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 18 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 95 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 6 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 37 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 8 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 8 records
- Aqaba, Jordan - 8 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 8 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 4 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 4 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 5 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 2 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 5 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 201 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 12 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 9 records