🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Bullethead Parrotfish live?

Chlorurus spilurus has 20,169 records in 32 countries and territories, from 1881 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesScaridaeChlorurus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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
United States 8,179
United States Minor Outlying Islands 3,696
American Samoa 2,709
Guam 1,759
Northern Mariana Islands 1,151
Australia 881
Indonesia 380
French Polynesia 346
New Caledonia 325
Fiji 266
Japan 85
Philippines 79
Malaysia 47
Tonga 38
Palau 33
Cook Islands 28
Solomon Islands 24
Vanuatu 23
Marshall Islands 22
Taiwan 19
Tuvalu 18
Micronesia 13
Papua New Guinea 13
Timor-Leste 11
China 8
Norfolk Island 7
Kiribati 4
Cocos Islands 1
Hong Kong 1
Vietnam 1
Wallis & Futuna 1
Samoa 1

Related animals

Others in the family Scaridae.

Stoplight parrotfish
81,358 records
Queen parrotfish
32,943 records
Daisy parrotfish
Daisy parrotfish
24,367 records
Surf parrotfish
15,672 records
Ember parrotfish
14,016 records
Palenose Parrotfish, Common parrotfish
13,508 records
Steephead Parrotfish
10,199 records
Birdled parrotfish, Bridled parrotfish
10,065 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.