🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Brown sleeper live?

Eleotris fusca has 2,240 records in 44 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from Taiwan.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesEleotridaeEleotris

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
Taiwan 428
RΓ©union 407
Indonesia 333
South Africa 191
French Polynesia 156
Australia 99
Japan 77
New Caledonia 62
Philippines 49
Madagascar 47
Papua New Guinea 46
Palau 46
Solomon Islands 43
Fiji 35
Mayotte 32
India 23
China 19
Comoros 19
Vanuatu 13
Tanzania 12
Bangladesh 9
Mozambique 9
Timor-Leste 9
Mauritius 8
Vietnam 8
Malaysia 6
Seychelles 6
Samoa 6
Micronesia 5
Guam 5
Cook Islands 4
Hong Kong 4
Wallis & Futuna 4
ZZ 4
Christmas Island 3
United States 3
Kenya 2
Maldives 2
Israel 1
North Korea 1

Showing the top 40 of 44 places.

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.