What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Strawberry Grouper been recorded?

Cephalopholis spiloparaea occurrence evidence comes from 547 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1929 to 2026. Most records come from Mayotte.

Strawberry Grouper
Strawberry Grouper — Photo (display-sized rendition): Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesSerranidaeCephalopholis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

547 records across 21 countries and territories, 1929–2026.

Cephalopholis spiloparaea · GBIF taxon key 2388857

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.

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

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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 Strawberry Grouper has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Strawberry Grouper. 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 210
American Samoa 91
Northern Mariana Islands 48
Philippines 41
Guam 35
United States Minor Outlying Islands 34
French Polynesia 29
Fiji 12
Palau 12
Indonesia 7
Solomon Islands 7
Seychelles 6
Mauritius 4
Australia 3
Vanuatu 2
Kiribati 1
New Caledonia 1
NR 1
Timor-Leste 1
Tonga 1
United States 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.