Parrotfish
Thalassoma lutescens
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
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Thalassoma
Where to Find
Found in 32 diving areas across 23 countries and 8 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 49 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 83 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 3 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 1 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 27 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 997 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 7 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 10 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 15 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 332 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 436 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 352 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 253 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 7 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 5 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 5 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 5 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 22 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 18 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 28 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 8 records