🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Smalltooth Jobfish, Small toothed jobfish live?

Aphareus furca has 9,350 records in 50 countries and territories, from 1769 to 2026. Most records come from United States Minor Outlying Islands.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLutjanidaeAphareus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. 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 Minor Outlying Islands 2,200
American Samoa 2,056
Northern Mariana Islands 1,155
United States 1,060
French Polynesia 382
Australia 328
Micronesia 320
Mayotte 284
Guam 266
Wallis & Futuna 178
Marshall Islands 113
Solomon Islands 73
Kiribati 72
Niue 72
Palau 71
Seychelles 69
Tonga 67
Tuvalu 53
India 48
Indonesia 46
Samoa 43
Cook Islands 37
Christmas Island 33
RΓ©union 31
Japan 29
Fiji 28
Maldives 28
Mozambique 28
New Caledonia 27
Papua New Guinea 27
Vanuatu 19
French Southern Territories 18
South Africa 16
Philippines 11
Costa Rica 9
Mauritius 9
Nauru 9
Taiwan 8
Malaysia 5
Cocos Islands 4

Showing the top 40 of 50 places.

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Others in the family Lutjanidae.

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8,566 records
Grey Jobfish, Green jobfish
8,390 records
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8,003 records
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Black and white snapper
4,018 records
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.