🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Blackstreak Surgeonfish, Epaulette surgeonfish live?

Acanthurus nigricauda has 4,710 records in 53 countries and territories, from 1907 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 1,052
French Polynesia 370
Indonesia 312
Micronesia 247
Mayotte 238
Maldives 220
Fiji 208
Wallis & Futuna 203
American Samoa 193
Northern Mariana Islands 185
New Caledonia 164
United States Minor Outlying Islands 148
Solomon Islands 131
Palau 121
RΓ©union 100
Kiribati 84
Marshall Islands 73
Guam 70
Seychelles 62
Vanuatu 58
Philippines 50
Tonga 47
Papua New Guinea 43
India 34
Madagascar 33
Tuvalu 26
Taiwan 24
Samoa 22
Mozambique 20
Thailand 20
Cook Islands 18
Mauritius 18
Malaysia 18
French Southern Territories 18
Kenya 15
Myanmar 12
Nauru 9
Japan 7
Cocos Islands 4
Timor-Leste 4

Showing the top 40 of 53 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.