🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Yellowtail damselfish live?

Microspathodon chrysurus has 33,933 records in 44 countries and territories, from 1861 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesPomacentridaeMicrospathodon

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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
United States 24,067
Puerto Rico 3,020
Brazil 1,337
US Virgin Islands 1,217
Colombia 1,081
Mexico 855
Bonaire 349
Guadeloupe 222
Belize 213
Honduras 176
Martinique 168
Curaçao 131
Panama 116
Jamaica 104
Cayman Islands 102
Bahamas 97
Cuba 72
Trinidad & Tobago 71
Barbados 62
Saint Lucia 57
Costa Rica 39
Dominica 36
St Vincent & the Grenadines 36
British Virgin Islands 34
Venezuela 30
ZZ 28
Dominican Republic 27
Saint Barthélemy 24
Bermuda 24
Aruba 21
St Kitts & Nevis 18
Grenada 17
Turks and Caicos Islands 16
Antigua & Barbuda 15
Sint Maarten 14
Saint Martin 12
Haiti 9
Nicaragua 4
United States Minor Outlying Islands 4
Egypt 3

Showing the top 40 of 44 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.