🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Slender emperor live?

Lethrinus variegatus has 3,512 records in 38 countries and territories, from 1827 to 2026. Most records come from Mozambique.

Slender emperor
Slender emperor β€” Photo: Jean-Lou Justine Β· CC BY-SA 3.0 Β· Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLethrinidaeLethrinus

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Mozambique 2,816
Australia 408
New Caledonia 105
Indonesia 17
ZZ 15
Egypt 14
Seychelles 13
Mayotte 12
Fiji 11
Kenya 11
Philippines 10
Papua New Guinea 9
Tanzania 9
Madagascar 8
South Africa 7
Kiribati 6
RΓ©union 5
Taiwan 4
Marshall Islands 3
Mauritius 3
Malaysia 3
Eritrea 2
Ethiopia 2
Israel 2
India 2
United States Minor Outlying Islands 2
Jordan 1
Maldives 1
Saudi Arabia 1
Solomon Islands 1
Singapore 1
Somalia 1
Timor-Leste 1
Tuvalu 1
Vietnam 1
Vanuatu 1
Samoa 1
Yemen 1

Related animals

Others in the family Lethrinidae.

Bigeye Emperor
Bigeye Emperor
15,935 records
Goldlined Emperor
Goldlined Emperor
4,689 records
Longnose Emperor
2,259 records
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.