🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Chevroned Butterflyfish live?

Chaetodon trifascialis has 9,205 records in 60 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesChaetodontidaeChaetodon

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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 3,454
United States Minor Outlying Islands 789
United States 655
New Caledonia 478
American Samoa 466
French Polynesia 458
Egypt 340
Indonesia 331
Tonga 194
Fiji 161
Palau 135
Taiwan 98
Samoa 98
Marshall Islands 96
Philippines 82
Wallis & Futuna 82
Maldives 81
Northern Mariana Islands 75
RΓ©union 74
Norfolk Island 72
Micronesia 71
Vanuatu 63
Japan 62
Guam 56
Solomon Islands 56
Seychelles 56
Christmas Island 55
Papua New Guinea 54
Tuvalu 49
Mauritius 43
India 33
Malaysia 32
Saudi Arabia 32
Thailand 32
Kiribati 26
Israel 23
Madagascar 22
Mozambique 22
Mayotte 21
Cook Islands 20

Showing the top 40 of 60 places.

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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.