🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Goldlined Emperor live?

Gnathodentex aureolineatus has 4,689 records in 53 countries and territories, from 1827 to 2026. Most records come from French Polynesia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLethrinidaeGnathodentex

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. 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
French Polynesia 614
American Samoa 511
Australia 406
Northern Mariana Islands 397
Micronesia 254
Marshall Islands 250
New Caledonia 250
Mayotte 191
RΓ©union 159
Maldives 156
Japan 143
Cook Islands 130
Guam 127
Wallis & Futuna 109
Indonesia 105
Tonga 101
United States Minor Outlying Islands 97
Philippines 73
Fiji 69
Mauritius 64
Seychelles 62
Palau 52
Solomon Islands 45
Taiwan 39
Christmas Island 25
Tuvalu 23
Cocos Islands 21
Kiribati 20
Samoa 20
Nauru 16
Papua New Guinea 15
China 13
Kenya 13
Comoros 12
India 11
Niue 11
Tanzania 11
Timor-Leste 9
Vanuatu 9
South Africa 8

Showing the top 40 of 53 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Lethrinidae.

Bigeye Emperor
15,935 records
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3,512 records
Longnose Emperor
2,259 records
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.