🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Spotband butterflyfish live?

Chaetodon punctatofasciatus has 2,956 records in 25 countries and territories, from 1860 to 2026. Most records come from Northern Mariana Islands.

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
Northern Mariana Islands 1,214
United States Minor Outlying Islands 612
Australia 388
Guam 192
Indonesia 165
Philippines 107
Marshall Islands 68
Palau 68
Taiwan 43
Papua New Guinea 14
Micronesia 13
Japan 13
Malaysia 11
Timor-Leste 8
United States 8
New Caledonia 7
Vietnam 6
Christmas Island 5
Solomon Islands 4
Cocos Islands 2
Kiribati 2
French Polynesia 2
ZZ 2
Cook Islands 1
China 1

Related animals

Others in the family Chaetodontidae.

Threadfin Butterflyfish
Threadfin Butterflyfish
15,761 records
Oval Butterflyfish
Oval Butterflyfish
11,276 records
Speckled Butterflyfish
Speckled Butterflyfish
10,272 records
Ornate Butterflyfish
Ornate Butterflyfish
9,326 records
Chevroned 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.