Greenfish
Stichopus chloronotus
Category: Sea Cucumbers
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Synallactida
- Family
- Stichopodidae
- Genus
- Stichopus
Where to Find
Found in 38 diving areas across 21 countries and 5 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 13 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 13 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 3 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 53 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 144 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 158 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 120 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 4 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 110 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 4 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 116 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 157 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 245 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 228 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 316 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 104 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 44 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 7 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 7 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 8 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 10 records
- Redang Island, Malaysia - 7 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 3 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records