What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Redbreast wrasse been recorded?

Cheilinus fasciatus occurrence evidence comes from 782 records in 28 countries and territories, from 1881 to 2024. Most records come from Micronesia.

Redbreast wrasse
Redbreast wrasse — Photo (display-sized rendition): Jens Petersen · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesLabridaeCheilinus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

782 records across 28 countries and territories, 1881–2024.

Cheilinus fasciatus · GBIF taxon key 2383309

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-22. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: August.

11 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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.

Records over time

18812024

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Redbreast wrasse has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Redbreast wrasse. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Micronesia 266
Marshall Islands 140
Guam 100
Palau 59
Philippines 42
American Samoa 40
United States 27
Solomon Islands 18
Seychelles 17
Fiji 10
Papua New Guinea 10
United States Minor Outlying Islands 10
ZZ 9
Indonesia 5
Northern Mariana Islands 5
Thailand 5
Australia 4
Myanmar 3
Egypt 2
Malaysia 2
Eritrea 1
New Caledonia 1
Saudi Arabia 1
Singapore 1
Tonga 1
Vietnam 1
Samoa 1
Yemen 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.