What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Honeycomb Grouper been recorded?

Epinephelus merra occurrence evidence comes from 1,388 records in 46 countries and territories, from 1881 to 2026. Most records come from New Caledonia.

Honeycomb Grouper
Honeycomb Grouper — Photo (display-sized rendition): Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesSerranidaeEpinephelus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,388 records across 46 countries and territories, 1881–2026.

Epinephelus merra · GBIF taxon key 2388193

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: 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.

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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

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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 Honeycomb Grouper has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Honeycomb Grouper. 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
New Caledonia 287
Philippines 207
Marshall Islands 128
American Samoa 91
Micronesia 88
French Polynesia 78
Palau 63
Fiji 52
United States 48
Indonesia 44
United States Minor Outlying Islands 39
Guam 37
Seychelles 26
Australia 23
Papua New Guinea 18
Solomon Islands 18
Maldives 16
Tonga 14
Vanuatu 14
Mauritius 13
Kiribati 9
Kenya 7
Northern Mariana Islands 6
Vietnam 6
India 5
British Indian Ocean Territory 5
Japan 4
Sri Lanka 4
Thailand 4
Mayotte 4
China 3
Malaysia 3
Wallis & Futuna 3
ZZ 3
Cocos Islands 2
Cook Islands 2
Christmas Island 2
Réunion 2
Taiwan 2
Samoa 2

Showing the top 40 of 46 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.