🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Striped Surgeonfish live?

Acanthurus lineatus has 13,012 records in 60 countries and territories, from 1825 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesAcanthuridaeAcanthurus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 2,424
American Samoa 1,674
Northern Mariana Islands 1,222
Solomon Islands 775
Indonesia 732
United States Minor Outlying Islands 672
Micronesia 543
Tonga 499
Wallis & Futuna 469
New Caledonia 448
Fiji 341
French Polynesia 310
Maldives 270
Guam 260
Seychelles 215
Philippines 193
Vanuatu 167
Taiwan 149
Thailand 140
Palau 121
Papua New Guinea 116
Sri Lanka 100
Nauru 97
Japan 94
Mayotte 84
Marshall Islands 78
Tuvalu 74
Christmas Island 73
United States 70
Kiribati 68
Samoa 68
Yemen 63
India 54
Niue 52
South Africa 47
Mozambique 28
Myanmar 26
Timor-Leste 23
Malaysia 21
RΓ©union 21

Showing the top 40 of 60 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.