🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Humphead wrasse live?

Cheilinus undulatus has 5,171 records in 55 countries and territories, from 1868 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLabridaeCheilinus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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 1,178
Egypt 547
Indonesia 438
New Caledonia 396
French Polynesia 379
American Samoa 257
United States Minor Outlying Islands 242
Maldives 232
Micronesia 202
Palau 180
Seychelles 110
Philippines 104
Guam 88
Fiji 77
Northern Mariana Islands 70
Marshall Islands 64
Malaysia 64
Solomon Islands 58
India 49
Papua New Guinea 48
Tuvalu 44
Saudi Arabia 34
Kenya 30
Kiribati 28
Cocos Islands 23
Cook Islands 22
Vanuatu 22
Samoa 22
Tonga 14
Mayotte 14
Mozambique 13
Sudan 12
Tanzania 11
RΓ©union 9
Timor-Leste 9
Taiwan 9
Wallis & Futuna 9
United States 8
Japan 7
French Southern Territories 7

Showing the top 40 of 55 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.