What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Sixline Soapfish been recorded?

Grammistes sexlineatus occurrence evidence comes from 361 records in 35 countries and territories, from 1882 to 2025. Most records come from Philippines.

PerciformesSerranidaeGrammistes

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

361 records across 35 countries and territories, 1882–2025.

Grammistes sexlineatus · GBIF taxon key 2387978

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-24. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

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

JFMAMJJASOND

Peak month: May. 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

18822025

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

Where Sixline Soapfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Sixline Soapfish. 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
Philippines 80
Micronesia 33
French Polynesia 30
Fiji 25
Marshall Islands 22
Guam 18
Seychelles 15
Tonga 15
Vanuatu 15
Egypt 11
Northern Mariana Islands 11
Solomon Islands 9
American Samoa 8
Kenya 8
Palau 8
Comoros 7
Papua New Guinea 6
Wallis & Futuna 6
Mauritius 5
Australia 4
Indonesia 4
South Africa 4
Japan 2
Madagascar 2
New Caledonia 2
Saudi Arabia 2
Cook Islands 1
Christmas Island 1
Israel 1
British Indian Ocean Territory 1
Maldives 1
Malaysia 1
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1
Vietnam 1
Samoa 1

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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.