What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Steephead Parrotfish been recorded?

Chlorurus microrhinos occurrence evidence comes from 2,704 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1902 to 2026. Most records come from United States Minor Outlying Islands.

Steephead Parrotfish
Steephead Parrotfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesScaridaeChlorurus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

2,704 records across 21 countries and territories, 1902–2026.

Chlorurus microrhinos · GBIF taxon key 5211130

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: April.

12 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.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

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.

Records over time

19022026

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

Where Steephead Parrotfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Steephead Parrotfish. 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
United States Minor Outlying Islands 676
Micronesia 675
American Samoa 584
Marshall Islands 470
Northern Mariana Islands 152
Australia 36
Guam 25
Philippines 21
Indonesia 20
Palau 10
French Polynesia 8
United States 8
New Caledonia 7
Solomon Islands 3
Papua New Guinea 2
ZZ 2
Costa Rica 1
Kiribati 1
Malaysia 1
Seychelles 1
Samoa 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.