What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse been recorded?

Labroides dimidiatus occurrence evidence comes from 6,456 records in 50 countries and territories, from 1908 to 2026. Most records come from Northern Mariana Islands.

Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
Bluestreak cleaner wrasse — Photo (display-sized rendition): Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesLabridaeLabroides

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

6,456 records across 50 countries and territories, 1908–2026.

Labroides dimidiatus · GBIF taxon key 2383731

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-21. 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.

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When it is recorded

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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

19082026

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

Where Bluestreak cleaner wrasse has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Bluestreak cleaner wrasse. 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
Northern Mariana Islands 1,568
American Samoa 1,418
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,347
Guam 732
United States 316
Philippines 149
Australia 108
Seychelles 101
French Polynesia 94
Fiji 88
Palau 62
Micronesia 50
Indonesia 45
Papua New Guinea 44
Mauritius 32
Solomon Islands 25
Tonga 25
Maldives 24
Egypt 22
Marshall Islands 20
Japan 19
New Caledonia 19
Thailand 19
South Africa 14
Vanuatu 13
Wallis & Futuna 11
British Indian Ocean Territory 9
Saudi Arabia 9
Kenya 8
Christmas Island 7
Kiribati 6
Oman 6
Cocos Islands 5
Israel 4
Sri Lanka 4
Myanmar 4
Taiwan 4
Vietnam 4
Comoros 3
United Arab Emirates 2

Showing the top 40 of 50 places.

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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.