What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Stareye Parrotfish been recorded?

Calotomus carolinus occurrence evidence comes from 1,851 records in 33 countries and territories, from 1889 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Stareye Parrotfish
Stareye Parrotfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesScaridaeCalotomus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,851 records across 33 countries and territories, 1889–2026.

Calotomus carolinus · GBIF taxon key 2393870

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

8 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: April. 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

18892026

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

Where Stareye Parrotfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Stareye Parrotfish. 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
United States 562
United States Minor Outlying Islands 326
American Samoa 324
Northern Mariana Islands 191
Guam 109
Mexico 78
Mayotte 49
Seychelles 41
Micronesia 30
New Caledonia 30
Philippines 26
French Polynesia 23
South Africa 14
Kiribati 5
Palau 5
Australia 4
Taiwan 4
Wallis & Futuna 4
ZZ 4
British Indian Ocean Territory 3
Vietnam 3
Vanuatu 3
Kenya 2
Mozambique 2
Indonesia 1
Marshall Islands 1
Maldives 1
Panama 1
Papua New Guinea 1
Réunion 1
Solomon Islands 1
Tonga 1
Yemen 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.