🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Saddled Butterflyfish live?

Chaetodon ephippium has 6,212 records in 40 countries and territories, from 1843 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesChaetodontidaeChaetodon

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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 1,335
French Polynesia 584
American Samoa 470
New Caledonia 374
United States 348
Fiji 344
United States Minor Outlying Islands 296
Tonga 285
Indonesia 248
Palau 247
Wallis & Futuna 182
Northern Mariana Islands 173
Solomon Islands 147
Marshall Islands 139
Guam 127
Kiribati 122
Micronesia 118
Vanuatu 112
Papua New Guinea 95
Cook Islands 82
Samoa 77
Japan 59
Taiwan 51
Tuvalu 41
Philippines 35
Cocos Islands 33
Hong Kong 22
Niue 18
Malaysia 13
Nauru 7
ZZ 7
Timor-Leste 5
Christmas Island 4
China 3
Vietnam 3
India 2
Kenya 1
Cambodia 1
Myanmar 1
Norfolk Island 1

Related animals

Others in the family Chaetodontidae.

Threadfin Butterflyfish
15,761 records
Oval Butterflyfish
Oval Butterflyfish
11,276 records
Speckled Butterflyfish
10,272 records
Ornate Butterflyfish
9,326 records
Chevroned Butterflyfish, Chevron butterflyfish
9,205 records
Redstriped Butterflyfish
9,129 records
Vagabond Butterflyfish
9,005 records
Whitespotted Butterflyfish
7,647 records
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.