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Where does the Tripletail wrasse live?

Cheilinus trilobatus has 5,941 records in 56 countries and territories, from 1769 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Tripletail wrasse
Tripletail wrasse β€” Photo: Feesch Β· CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLabridaeCheilinus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. 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 1,260
United States Minor Outlying Islands 752
Tonga 499
French Polynesia 455
Guam 276
Indonesia 212
New Caledonia 210
Seychelles 210
Philippines 176
American Samoa 175
Northern Mariana Islands 174
Fiji 167
Micronesia 158
Maldives 127
Marshall Islands 97
RΓ©union 93
Taiwan 83
Japan 61
Mauritius 48
India 46
Malaysia 45
Kenya 43
United States 41
Thailand 39
Mozambique 38
Cocos Islands 36
Solomon Islands 36
Madagascar 35
Egypt 34
Palau 30
Vanuatu 28
Tanzania 27
Cook Islands 25
Papua New Guinea 23
Wallis & Futuna 23
Kiribati 21
British Indian Ocean Territory 15
French Southern Territories 14
Vietnam 12
Samoa 12

Showing the top 40 of 56 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.