What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Common dolphinfish been recorded?

Coryphaena hippurus occurrence evidence comes from 75,656 records in 73 countries and territories, from 1878 to 2025. Most records come from United States.

Common dolphinfish
Common dolphinfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): gendereuphorbia · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesCoryphaenidaeCoryphaena

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

75,656 records across 73 countries and territories, 1878–2025.

Coryphaena hippurus · GBIF taxon key 2381939

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: June.

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.

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When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

Peak month: June. 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

18782025

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

Where Common dolphinfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Common dolphinfish. 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 54,001
ZZ 9,000
Cuba 2,848
Mexico 1,428
Bahamas 1,358
Haiti 358
US Virgin Islands 271
Puerto Rico 228
Venezuela 83
Dominican Republic 79
Guatemala 64
Ecuador 56
Japan 56
Panama 56
Bermuda 55
Anguilla 51
Antigua & Barbuda 50
Costa Rica 45
Suriname 45
New Caledonia 41
India 34
Réunion 32
Canada 26
Colombia 25
Guyana 25
Seychelles 24
British Virgin Islands 20
Philippines 17
Brazil 16
Cayman Islands 16
France 15
El Salvador 15
Bonaire 14
Turks and Caicos Islands 11
Aruba 10
Martinique 10
Dominica 9
Indonesia 9
Nicaragua 9
Peru 9

Showing the top 40 of 73 places.

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.