🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Longnose Parrotfish live?

Hipposcarus longiceps has 4,475 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1881 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesScaridaeHipposcarus

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 1,546
Micronesia 603
Philippines 453
New Caledonia 445
Marshall Islands 289
French Polynesia 150
Tonga 121
Fiji 117
Palau 117
Guam 77
Solomon Islands 72
United States Minor Outlying Islands 63
Indonesia 60
Papua New Guinea 59
Tuvalu 46
Kiribati 42
Wallis & Futuna 38
Northern Mariana Islands 36
Vanuatu 36
Cook Islands 35
Taiwan 22
Samoa 15
Japan 10
American Samoa 7
Malaysia 7
United States 5
Egypt 1
Hong Kong 1
Maldives 1
ZZ 1

Related animals

Others in the family Scaridae.

Stoplight parrotfish
81,358 records
Queen parrotfish
32,943 records
Daisy parrotfish
Daisy parrotfish
24,367 records
Bullethead Parrotfish
20,169 records
Surf parrotfish
15,672 records
Ember parrotfish
14,016 records
Palenose Parrotfish
Palenose Parrotfish
13,508 records
Steephead Parrotfish
10,199 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.