Canthidermis maculata (Bloch, 1786)

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 309

Canthidermis maculata (Bloch, 1786)

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 50 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: reef associated

Depth range: 1-110 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2015)

Source: observation

Distribution and remarks: circumglobal. Eastern Atlantic: known from southern Ireland south to Morocco, the Azores, Canaries, Cape Verde, and along West Africa to Namibia, including the mid-Atlantic Oceanic islands. Regularly caught by the tuna seiners in the high sea of Gabon (De Bruyne and Chartrain).