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Where does the Speckled Butterflyfish live?

Chaetodon citrinellus has 10,272 records in 46 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Speckled Butterflyfish
Speckled Butterflyfish β€” Paipateroma / CC BY-SA 3.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesChaetodontidaeChaetodon

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. 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
Australia 3,746
French Polynesia 1,431
New Caledonia 814
American Samoa 570
Tonga 482
Fiji 467
Guam 431
Northern Mariana Islands 356
Vanuatu 200
Wallis & Futuna 166
Indonesia 149
Micronesia 136
Palau 123
Cook Islands 119
Marshall Islands 104
Taiwan 101
Samoa 101
Maldives 88
Japan 84
Solomon Islands 82
Papua New Guinea 80
Philippines 70
United States 54
India 53
Tuvalu 42
United States Minor Outlying Islands 40
Norfolk Island 29
Kiribati 26
Christmas Island 21
Nauru 20
Cocos Islands 15
Niue 12
Sri Lanka 11
Seychelles 9
Timor-Leste 8
ZZ 8
Malaysia 7
RΓ©union 6
China 2
British Indian Ocean Territory 2

Showing the top 40 of 46 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Chaetodontidae.

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Oval Butterflyfish
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Ornate Butterflyfish
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Chevroned Butterflyfish
9,205 records
Redstriped Butterflyfish
9,129 records
Vagabond Butterflyfish
9,005 records
Whitespotted Butterflyfish
7,647 records
Reticulated Butterflyfish
Reticulated Butterflyfish
6,918 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.