What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Smalltooth Jobfish been recorded?

Aphareus furca occurrence evidence comes from 5,307 records in 26 countries and territories, from 1889 to 2025. Most records come from American Samoa.

Smalltooth Jobfish
Smalltooth Jobfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesLutjanidaeAphareus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

5,307 records across 26 countries and territories, 1889–2025.

Aphareus furca · GBIF taxon key 5209911

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

5 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: February. 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

18892025

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

Where Smalltooth Jobfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Smalltooth Jobfish. 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
American Samoa 1,495
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,451
Northern Mariana Islands 723
United States 672
Micronesia 279
Mayotte 274
Guam 228
Seychelles 68
Marshall Islands 51
French Polynesia 26
Costa Rica 9
Wallis & Futuna 6
Palau 5
Fiji 3
Colombia 2
New Caledonia 2
Papua New Guinea 2
Philippines 2
Solomon Islands 2
Australia 1
Cook Islands 1
Indonesia 1
Maldives 1
Vanuatu 1
Yemen 1
South Africa 1

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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.