What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Giant Moray been recorded?

Gymnothorax javanicus occurrence evidence comes from 422 records in 40 countries and territories, from 1902 to 2026. Most records come from French Polynesia.

Giant Moray
Giant Moray — Photo (display-sized rendition): Nhobgood Nick Hobgood · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnguilliformesMuraenidaeGymnothorax

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

422 records across 40 countries and territories, 1902–2026.

Gymnothorax javanicus · GBIF taxon key 2403808

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-23. 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

19022026

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

Where Giant Moray has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Giant Moray. 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
French Polynesia 54
United States Minor Outlying Islands 48
Egypt 38
Philippines 35
Indonesia 31
Micronesia 25
New Caledonia 24
Maldives 22
United States 16
Australia 15
Palau 15
American Samoa 14
Marshall Islands 14
Northern Mariana Islands 10
Thailand 9
Guam 8
Seychelles 5
Mauritius 3
Panama 3
Tonga 3
Taiwan 3
Vanuatu 3
Cook Islands 2
Costa Rica 2
India 2
British Indian Ocean Territory 2
Myanmar 2
Saudi Arabia 2
Christmas Island 1
Fiji 1
Malaysia 1
Mozambique 1
Papua New Guinea 1
Solomon Islands 1
Tuvalu 1
Tanzania 1
Vietnam 1
Samoa 1
Yemen 1
ZZ 1
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.