Common Lyre-tail Cod
Variola louti
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
- Perciformes
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Variola
Where to Find
Found in 50 diving areas across 32 countries and 6 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 14 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 74 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 10 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 6 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 13 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 20 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 7 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 6 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 8 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 40 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 8 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 5 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 188 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 5 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 61 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 7 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 72 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 13 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 13 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 9 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 221 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 206 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 11 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 6 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 17 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Eilat, Israel - 3 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 3 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 5 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 9 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 12 records