🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Blue-green Chromis live?

Chromis viridis has 5,906 records in 59 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesPomacentridaeChromis

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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 1,942
French Polynesia 605
Tonga 486
Egypt 426
New Caledonia 384
Fiji 278
Indonesia 241
Philippines 182
American Samoa 125
Maldives 120
Guam 93
Japan 80
United States 78
RΓ©union 69
Mayotte 47
Marshall Islands 42
Mauritius 42
United States Minor Outlying Islands 41
Cook Islands 40
Madagascar 40
Saudi Arabia 40
Northern Mariana Islands 38
Israel 37
Papua New Guinea 30
Palau 30
Solomon Islands 27
Vanuatu 25
Taiwan 24
Tanzania 23
Cocos Islands 19
Seychelles 19
Vietnam 19
Kenya 17
Malaysia 17
ZZ 17
India 16
British Indian Ocean Territory 15
Eritrea 13
Jordan 12
Sudan 12

Showing the top 40 of 59 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.