Channel Flounder
Syacium micrurum
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
- Pleuronectiformes
- Family
- Paralichthyidae
- Genus
- Syacium
Where to Find
Found in 26 diving areas across 19 countries and 4 regions.
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 3 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 2 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 26 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 20 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 5 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 10 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 3 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 1 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 3 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 3 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 9 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 8 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 7 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 1 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 13 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 6 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 8 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Santiago, Cape Verde - 4 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 6 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 40 records