What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Yellowstripe Goatfish been recorded?

Mulloidichthys flavolineatus occurrence evidence comes from 3,584 records in 47 countries and territories, from 1882 to 2026. Most records come from Marshall Islands.

Yellowstripe Goatfish
Yellowstripe Goatfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): dr.scott.mills · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesMullidaeMulloidichthys

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

3,584 records across 47 countries and territories, 1882–2026.

Mulloidichthys flavolineatus · GBIF taxon key 2396835

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-22. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: March.

9 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: March. 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

18822026

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

Where Yellowstripe Goatfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Yellowstripe Goatfish. 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
Marshall Islands 1,327
United States 744
New Caledonia 482
Micronesia 163
Seychelles 120
Australia 109
United States Minor Outlying Islands 86
French Polynesia 62
Guam 56
Yemen 46
Mayotte 45
Palau 41
Philippines 40
American Samoa 34
Indonesia 30
Northern Mariana Islands 29
Egypt 28
British Indian Ocean Territory 14
ZZ 13
Mauritius 12
Solomon Islands 12
Fiji 11
Vanuatu 8
Cook Islands 7
Japan 7
Réunion 7
Kiribati 6
Papua New Guinea 6
Cocos Islands 4
Mauritania 4
Maldives 4
Tonga 4
Israel 3
India 3
Saudi Arabia 3
Wallis & Futuna 2
Samoa 2
China 1
Eritrea 1
Mozambique 1

Showing the top 40 of 47 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.