What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Three-spot Dascyllus been recorded?

Dascyllus trimaculatus occurrence evidence comes from 1,688 records in 54 countries and territories, from 1860 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Three-spot Dascyllus
Three-spot Dascyllus — Photo (display-sized rendition): (c) portioid, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesPomacentridaeDascyllus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,688 records across 54 countries and territories, 1860–2026.

Dascyllus trimaculatus · GBIF taxon key 5212031

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: April.

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.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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

18602026

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

Where Three-spot Dascyllus has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Three-spot Dascyllus. 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 259
Northern Mariana Islands 219
Philippines 156
Australia 130
Guam 97
American Samoa 93
Indonesia 78
Papua New Guinea 43
Seychelles 41
French Polynesia 35
Solomon Islands 34
Cocos Islands 30
Oman 30
Egypt 29
United Kingdom 29
French Southern Territories 28
Palau 27
Fiji 26
Saudi Arabia 26
Tonga 25
British Indian Ocean Territory 21
Christmas Island 18
Thailand 18
Timor-Leste 17
New Caledonia 15
Japan 14
Micronesia 12
Cook Islands 11
Tanzania 11
Mayotte 11
Djibouti 10
United States Minor Outlying Islands 10
South Africa 9
Israel 8
Comoros 8
Maldives 8
Kenya 7
Mauritius 6
United Arab Emirates 4
Jordan 4

Showing the top 40 of 54 places.

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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.