What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Samoan Cardinalfish been recorded?

Nectamia savayensis occurrence evidence comes from 419 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1900 to 2023. Most records come from French Polynesia.

PerciformesApogonidaeNectamia

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

419 records across 36 countries and territories, 1900–2023.

Nectamia savayensis · GBIF taxon key 2397471

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: May.

12 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.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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

19002023

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

Where Samoan Cardinalfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Samoan Cardinalfish. 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
French Polynesia 73
Fiji 57
Philippines 49
Micronesia 38
Palau 31
Marshall Islands 22
Papua New Guinea 22
Seychelles 14
Wallis & Futuna 13
Solomon Islands 11
British Indian Ocean Territory 10
Indonesia 9
Tonga 9
Maldives 7
Mauritius 6
Australia 5
Guam 5
India 4
Thailand 4
Vanuatu 4
Northern Mariana Islands 3
New Caledonia 3
American Samoa 2
Kiribati 2
Madagascar 2
Taiwan 2
United States Minor Outlying Islands 2
Samoa 2
Cook Islands 1
China 1
Christmas Island 1
Comoros 1
South Korea 1
Sri Lanka 1
Vietnam 1
Mayotte 1

Related animals

Others in the family Apogonidae.

Norfolk cardinalfish
46 records
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.