🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Bluelined Surgeonfish live?

Acanthurus nigroris has 10,568 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

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
United States 6,166
United States Minor Outlying Islands 2,392
American Samoa 828
French Polynesia 493
Northern Mariana Islands 178
Australia 175
Tonga 65
Marshall Islands 54
Micronesia 46
Kiribati 46
Samoa 35
Guam 25
New Caledonia 13
Palau 8
Wallis & Futuna 7
Vanuatu 6
Cook Islands 5
Solomon Islands 5
Philippines 3
French Southern Territories 3
Tuvalu 3
Indonesia 2
Niue 2
Papua New Guinea 2
Fiji 1
Japan 1
Madagascar 1
Pitcairn 1
Tokelau 1
ZZ 1

Related animals

Others in the family Acanthuridae.

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Whitecheek surgeonfish
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Convict surgeonfish
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Brushtail Surgeonfish
Brushtail Surgeonfish
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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.