๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Lemonpeel angelfish live?

Centropyge flavissima has 15,505 records in 32 countries and territories, from 1876 to 2026. Most records come from American Samoa.

Lemonpeel angelfish
Lemonpeel angelfish โ€” User:Haplochromis / CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesPomacanthidaeCentropyge

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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
American Samoa 4,585
United States Minor Outlying Islands 4,217
Northern Mariana Islands 2,651
French Polynesia 1,680
Guam 490
Tonga 409
New Caledonia 291
Fiji 284
Australia 167
Cook Islands 107
Marshall Islands 103
Nauru 98
Kiribati 86
Christmas Island 67
Vanuatu 57
Cocos Islands 51
Samoa 38
Philippines 31
Wallis & Futuna 22
Japan 16
Tuvalu 11
Niue 9
Tokelau 9
United States 7
ZZ 7
Micronesia 4
Egypt 2
India 2
Indonesia 1
Palau 1
Solomon Islands 1
Taiwan 1

Related animals

Others in the family Pomacanthidae.

Regal angelfish
8,440 records
Emperor angelfish
5,877 records
Flame Angelfish
Flame Angelfish
5,602 records
Twospined Angelfish
5,506 records
Mango Angelfish
2,730 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.