๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Bicolor chromis live?

Chromis margaritifer has 15,539 records in 31 countries and territories, from 1860 to 2024. Most records come from United States Minor Outlying Islands.

Bicolor chromis
Bicolor chromis โ€” Izuzuki / CC BY 3.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesPomacentridaeChromis

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 Minor Outlying Islands 5,320
American Samoa 3,883
Australia 2,915
Northern Mariana Islands 836
Tonga 780
French Polynesia 442
United States 339
Guam 304
Japan 145
New Caledonia 95
Palau 82
Fiji 70
Philippines 68
Taiwan 48
Christmas Island 37
Indonesia 26
Kiribati 26
Solomon Islands 24
Vanuatu 19
Micronesia 18
Marshall Islands 17
Wallis & Futuna 14
Papua New Guinea 12
Vietnam 10
Cocos Islands 3
China 1
Egypt 1
Seychelles 1
Timor-Leste 1
Tuvalu 1
ZZ 1

Related animals

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Ocellate Damselfish
18,571 records
Johnston Damselfish
Johnston Damselfish
17,632 records
Vanderbilt's Chromis
Vanderbilt's Chromis
14,877 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.