What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Sergeant Major been recorded?

Abudefduf saxatilis occurrence evidence comes from 38,801 records in 70 countries and territories, from 1895 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Sergeant Major
Sergeant Major — Photo (display-sized rendition): JeffreyGammon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesPomacentridaeAbudefduf

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

38,801 records across 70 countries and territories, 1895–2026.

Abudefduf saxatilis · GBIF taxon key 2398623

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-22. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

7 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18952026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Sergeant Major has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Sergeant Major. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 33,813
Puerto Rico 2,917
US Virgin Islands 702
Brazil 354
Mexico 203
Belize 191
Cayman Islands 58
Panama 55
Jamaica 39
Costa Rica 38
Bahamas 37
Philippines 33
Bermuda 24
Ecuador 24
Trinidad & Tobago 24
ZZ 22
Cuba 21
Indonesia 19
Venezuela 17
Curaçao 16
Bonaire 15
Peru 10
Aruba 9
Australia 8
Colombia 8
Honduras 8
Palau 8
Dominican Republic 7
Fiji 7
Kenya 7
Saint Helena 7
Hong Kong 6
Papua New Guinea 6
Barbados 5
Benin 5
Martinique 5
India 4
Seychelles 4
Turks and Caicos Islands 4
Antigua & Barbuda 3

Showing the top 40 of 70 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.