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Where does the Brown Unicornfish live?

Naso unicornis has 15,933 records in 60 countries and territories, from 1825 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Brown Unicornfish
Brown Unicornfish β€” (c) Susan Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY) / CC BY 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesAcanthuridaeNaso

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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 5,601
Australia 4,490
New Caledonia 1,224
Egypt 583
United States Minor Outlying Islands 567
Tonga 344
Northern Mariana Islands 297
French Polynesia 287
Micronesia 240
RΓ©union 201
Seychelles 178
American Samoa 164
Guam 153
Norfolk Island 137
Philippines 111
Mozambique 100
Japan 98
Cook Islands 90
Fiji 83
Marshall Islands 81
Mayotte 78
Taiwan 66
Mauritius 64
Vanuatu 61
Indonesia 57
Palau 56
Maldives 46
Niue 45
Wallis & Futuna 42
Cocos Islands 38
Saudi Arabia 32
Tuvalu 29
Papua New Guinea 25
French Southern Territories 24
Thailand 21
Kiribati 20
South Africa 20
Solomon Islands 19
Yemen 17
India 15

Showing the top 40 of 60 places.

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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.