What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Titan triggerfish been recorded?

Balistoides viridescens occurrence evidence comes from 668 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1929 to 2026. Most records come from Mayotte.

Titan triggerfish
Titan triggerfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
TetraodontiformesBalistidaeBalistoides

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

668 records across 36 countries and territories, 1929–2026.

Balistoides viridescens · GBIF taxon key 2407133

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-23. 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.

11 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

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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

19292026

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

Where Titan triggerfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Titan triggerfish. 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
Mayotte 100
American Samoa 85
United States Minor Outlying Islands 80
Seychelles 66
Micronesia 57
Indonesia 48
Northern Mariana Islands 34
Philippines 33
Guam 23
Egypt 22
Australia 17
French Polynesia 16
Palau 16
Marshall Islands 14
Maldives 12
Thailand 6
United States 5
New Caledonia 4
Fiji 3
Myanmar 3
Papua New Guinea 3
Japan 2
Sri Lanka 2
Malaysia 2
Solomon Islands 2
Vietnam 2
Yemen 2
India 1
Kenya 1
Comoros 1
Mauritius 1
Saudi Arabia 1
Somalia 1
Tonga 1
Tanzania 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.