🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Brown Sandfish live?

Bohadschia vitiensis has 1,658 records in 44 countries and territories, from 1909 to 2026. Most records come from New Caledonia.

Brown Sandfish
Brown Sandfish — Photo: François Michonneau · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaEchinodermataHolothuroideaHolothuriidaHolothuriidaeBohadschia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. 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

19092026

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
New Caledonia 517
Wallis & Futuna 168
French Polynesia 143
Palau 115
Tonga 115
Samoa 83
Fiji 82
Papua New Guinea 43
Solomon Islands 37
Micronesia 34
Vanuatu 34
Australia 31
Philippines 24
Indonesia 23
Kiribati 22
Tanzania 15
Malaysia 14
Madagascar 13
Maldives 12
Mauritius 11
Marshall Islands 10
Guam 9
India 9
ZZ 9
Réunion 8
Cocos Islands 7
Egypt 7
Japan 7
Seychelles 7
Kenya 6
Comoros 6
Singapore 6
Northern Mariana Islands 5
Thailand 5
Tuvalu 4
Mayotte 4
French Southern Territories 3
Sri Lanka 2
Mozambique 2
American Samoa 1

Showing the top 40 of 44 places.

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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.