Snakefish
Trachinocephalus myops
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
- Aulopiformes
- Family
- Synodontidae
- Genus
- Trachinocephalus
Where to Find
Found in 64 diving areas across 39 countries and 10 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 25 records
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 117 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 246 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 3 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 18 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 3 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 3 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 3 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 8 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 40 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 40 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 4 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 2 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 2 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 5 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 4 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 6 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 3 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 2 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 2 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 1 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 4 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 4 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 10 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 5 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 14 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 16 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 3 records
- Azores, Portugal - 1 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 2 records
- Dahab, Egypt - 14 records
- Eilat, Israel - 14 records
- Aqaba, Jordan - 14 records
- Aqaba Marine Park, Jordan - 14 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 3 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 3 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 4 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 6 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 4 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 8 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 11 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 3 records