🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the White Thread Fish live?

Holothuria leucospilota has 3,245 records in 64 countries and territories, from 1861 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

White Thread Fish
White Thread Fish β€” Photo via Wikimedia Commons Β· CC BY-SA 3.0
AnimaliaEchinodermataHolothuroideaHolothuriidaHolothuriidaeHolothuria

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.

Records over time

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 870
Japan 376
Cook Islands 316
Singapore 206
New Caledonia 151
India 141
Hong Kong 132
Taiwan 127
Thailand 110
Mexico 78
Philippines 75
Fiji 72
Tonga 59
French Polynesia 54
Malaysia 42
Indonesia 41
Papua New Guinea 28
RΓ©union 28
Ecuador 27
Tanzania 27
Guam 25
Kenya 21
Vanuatu 21
Oman 15
Mauritius 13
ZZ 13
Marshall Islands 11
Norfolk Island 11
Egypt 10
United States 10
Vietnam 10
China 9
Micronesia 9
Israel 9
South Africa 9
Madagascar 8
Seychelles 8
Costa Rica 7
United Arab Emirates 6
France 6

Showing the top 40 of 64 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.