What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Rainbow Runner been recorded?

Elagatis bipinnulata occurrence evidence comes from 24,820 records in 44 countries and territories, from 1931 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Rainbow Runner
Rainbow Runner — Photo (display-sized rendition): Hugues Evano (IFREMER, Délégation océan Indien (DOI), Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement (RBE), F-97420 Le Port, France) · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesCarangidaeElagatis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

24,820 records across 44 countries and territories, 1931–2026.

Elagatis bipinnulata · GBIF taxon key 5210446

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-21. 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.

6 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: 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

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

Where Rainbow Runner has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Rainbow Runner. 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 18,256
Puerto Rico 5,110
Costa Rica 417
United States Minor Outlying Islands 341
American Samoa 144
Colombia 143
Marshall Islands 122
Northern Mariana Islands 75
Mayotte 41
Mexico 34
Panama 21
Philippines 18
US Virgin Islands 13
Malaysia 12
Micronesia 8
Indonesia 6
French Polynesia 5
Australia 4
Brazil 4
Guam 4
Ecuador 3
Palau 3
Seychelles 3
Cabo Verde 2
France 2
Maldives 2
New Caledonia 2
Solomon Islands 2
Thailand 2
Venezuela 2
Bermuda 1
Bahamas 1
Belize 1
China 1
Haiti 1
India 1
Kiribati 1
Nicaragua 1
Peru 1
Singapore 1

Showing the top 40 of 44 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.