🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Barred thicklip live?

Hemigymnus fasciatus has 9,314 records in 58 countries and territories, from 1769 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLabridaeHemigymnus

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
Australia 4,285
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,146
American Samoa 788
Northern Mariana Islands 476
French Polynesia 337
Tonga 315
New Caledonia 219
Indonesia 169
Fiji 116
Solomon Islands 98
Seychelles 96
Philippines 88
Maldives 85
Guam 79
Wallis & Futuna 75
Taiwan 64
RΓ©union 62
Japan 56
Micronesia 55
Marshall Islands 55
Papua New Guinea 44
Vanuatu 42
Niue 40
Christmas Island 35
Kiribati 34
Palau 32
Mauritius 31
India 30
Thailand 30
Tuvalu 27
United States 26
Samoa 26
Cook Islands 23
Vietnam 23
French Southern Territories 21
Madagascar 18
South Africa 18
Sri Lanka 16
Mozambique 16
Tanzania 16

Showing the top 40 of 58 places.

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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.