What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Red Snapper been recorded?

Lutjanus bohar occurrence evidence comes from 6,757 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1881 to 2026. Most records come from United States Minor Outlying Islands.

Red Snapper
Red Snapper — Photo (display-sized rendition): Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesLutjanidaeLutjanus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

6,757 records across 36 countries and territories, 1881–2026.

Lutjanus bohar · GBIF taxon key 2384758

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: February.

6 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.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. 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 Red Snapper has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Red Snapper. 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
United States Minor Outlying Islands 3,048
Northern Mariana Islands 1,220
American Samoa 1,087
Seychelles 317
Mayotte 294
Micronesia 254
New Caledonia 92
Philippines 87
United States 68
Marshall Islands 64
Guam 57
Australia 37
French Polynesia 22
Indonesia 21
Egypt 13
Maldives 12
Kiribati 9
Palau 8
ZZ 8
Solomon Islands 7
British Indian Ocean Territory 5
Fiji 4
Sri Lanka 4
Eritrea 3
Wallis & Futuna 3
Comoros 2
Cook Islands 1
Christmas Island 1
Ecuador 1
Japan 1
Kenya 1
Papua New Guinea 1
Thailand 1
Tanzania 1
Vietnam 1
Yemen 1

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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.