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Where does the Vlaming's Unicornfish live?

Naso vlamingii has 3,369 records in 46 countries and territories, from 1911 to 2026. Most records come from American Samoa.

Vlaming's Unicornfish
Vlaming's Unicornfish β€” Photo: Rickard Zerpe Β· CC BY 2.0 Β· Wikimedia Commons
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
American Samoa 482
United States Minor Outlying Islands 457
Indonesia 425
Australia 284
Northern Mariana Islands 248
French Polynesia 223
Maldives 164
Philippines 108
Palau 101
Mayotte 95
Guam 87
Micronesia 77
Solomon Islands 76
Fiji 52
Papua New Guinea 52
Marshall Islands 51
Taiwan 51
India 48
Nauru 46
Tuvalu 36
New Caledonia 32
United States 26
Vanuatu 26
Malaysia 25
Japan 19
Timor-Leste 10
Wallis & Futuna 10
Thailand 8
Seychelles 7
French Southern Territories 6
Cocos Islands 5
Cook Islands 4
Kiribati 4
RΓ©union 4
Christmas Island 3
Tanzania 3
Ecuador 2
British Indian Ocean Territory 2
Myanmar 2
Yemen 2

Showing the top 40 of 46 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.