🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Vanderbilt's Chromis live?

Chromis vanderbilti has 14,877 records in 27 countries and territories, from 1905 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

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 8,118
United States Minor Outlying Islands 3,232
Northern Mariana Islands 1,478
Australia 591
French Polynesia 512
American Samoa 429
Tonga 134
New Caledonia 133
Fiji 69
Japan 55
Marshall Islands 20
Kiribati 16
Taiwan 16
Guam 13
Vanuatu 11
Philippines 9
Norfolk Island 8
Wallis & Futuna 8
Papua New Guinea 5
Cook Islands 4
New Zealand 3
Vietnam 3
ZZ 3
Indonesia 2
Niue 2
Timor-Leste 2
Palau 1

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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.