dusky farmerfish
Stegastes nigricans
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
- Ovalentaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Stegastes
Where to Find
Found in 45 diving areas across 28 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 14 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 14 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 15 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 19 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 136 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 39 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 4 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 16 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 10 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 44 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 17 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 9 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 13 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 7 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 60 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 3 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 229 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 100 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 122 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 8 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 8 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 9 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 7 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 7 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 3 records
- Eilat, Israel - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 1 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records