What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Fire Dartfish been recorded?

Nemateleotris magnifica occurrence evidence comes from 1,507 records in 27 countries and territories, from 1957 to 2025. Most records come from Northern Mariana Islands.

Fire Dartfish
Fire Dartfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesMicrodesmidaeNemateleotris

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,507 records across 27 countries and territories, 1957–2025.

Nemateleotris magnifica · GBIF taxon key 2385839

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

11 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: 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.

Records over time

19572025

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

Where Fire Dartfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Fire Dartfish. 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
Northern Mariana Islands 711
American Samoa 346
Guam 219
United States Minor Outlying Islands 82
French Polynesia 48
Seychelles 20
United States 18
Philippines 9
Indonesia 7
Solomon Islands 7
Mauritius 5
Tonga 5
New Caledonia 4
Wallis & Futuna 4
Australia 3
Fiji 3
Maldives 3
Micronesia 2
Japan 2
Papua New Guinea 2
Cook Islands 1
Christmas Island 1
British Indian Ocean Territory 1
Palau 1
Réunion 1
Taiwan 1
Vanuatu 1
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.