Blue-lined Tang
Zebrasoma scopas
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
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Zebrasoma
Where to Find
Found in 65 diving areas across 31 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 3 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 430 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 17 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 48 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 43 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 53 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 5 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 28 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 18 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 16 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 135 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 25 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 50 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 20 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 7 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 46 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 18 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 69 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 127 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 17 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 56 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1000 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 289 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 124 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 925 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 829 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 500 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 15 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 28 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 55 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 3 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 5 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 27 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 16 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 10 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 5 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 708 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 5 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 43 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 12 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 4 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 4 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 50 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 13 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 59 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 28 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 10 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 31 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 54 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 1 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 6 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 132 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 157 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 18 records