🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Lineated Butterflyfish live?

Chaetodon trifasciatus has 4,953 records in 51 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesChaetodontidaeChaetodon

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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 2,785
Seychelles 304
Maldives 286
RΓ©union 121
Thailand 118
India 104
Mauritius 88
Madagascar 87
Tanzania 77
Palau 75
Kenya 74
French Polynesia 73
Micronesia 71
Indonesia 64
Myanmar 46
Mayotte 46
British Indian Ocean Territory 37
Mozambique 37
Philippines 36
Cocos Islands 33
New Caledonia 32
Fiji 31
Christmas Island 30
United Kingdom 29
Sri Lanka 29
Papua New Guinea 29
French Southern Territories 24
Yemen 24
Marshall Islands 23
Solomon Islands 19
Vanuatu 19
Comoros 18
South Africa 14
United States 10
Vietnam 9
Guam 8
Kiribati 7
ZZ 6
Japan 5
Tonga 5

Showing the top 40 of 51 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.