🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Black and white snapper live?

Macolor niger has 4,018 records in 55 countries and territories, from 1822 to 2026. Most records come from American Samoa.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLutjanidaeMacolor

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
American Samoa 626
Australia 589
Northern Mariana Islands 588
Egypt 314
Mayotte 206
Micronesia 172
New Caledonia 159
Guam 143
Seychelles 116
Indonesia 113
Marshall Islands 107
Palau 92
Fiji 89
Maldives 74
Solomon Islands 65
Philippines 61
India 49
Vanuatu 45
Wallis & Futuna 34
Kenya 31
Tuvalu 25
South Africa 25
Malaysia 21
Papua New Guinea 21
Japan 19
Taiwan 19
Saudi Arabia 18
Tanzania 17
French Southern Territories 16
Tonga 16
Madagascar 15
United States Minor Outlying Islands 15
Mozambique 13
Samoa 12
Timor-Leste 10
Kiribati 9
Niue 9
Sudan 8
Christmas Island 7
United States 7

Showing the top 40 of 55 places.

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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.