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Where does the yellowtail snapper live?

Ocyurus chrysurus has 98,739 records in 47 countries and territories, from 1827 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

yellowtail snapper
yellowtail snapper — Fred Hsu (Wikipedia:User:Fredhsu on en.wikipedia) / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLutjanidaeOcyurus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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 73,854
Puerto Rico 13,682
Brazil 5,391
US Virgin Islands 1,328
Mexico 1,090
Colombia 758
Guadeloupe 674
Belize 265
Bahamas 264
Martinique 157
Honduras 127
Cuba 120
Bonaire 119
Panama 95
Turks and Caicos Islands 93
Dominican Republic 86
British Virgin Islands 74
Jamaica 67
Cayman Islands 62
Antigua & Barbuda 45
Aruba 44
Curaçao 43
ZZ 36
Bermuda 35
Sint Maarten 32
Venezuela 28
Trinidad & Tobago 26
Saint Martin 24
Dominica 20
Saint Barthélemy 13
Grenada 13
Saint Lucia 11
Haiti 10
St Vincent & the Grenadines 9
St Kitts & Nevis 8
Nicaragua 7
France 6
Barbados 5
Anguilla 3
French Guiana 3

Showing the top 40 of 47 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Lutjanidae.

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Red Snapper, Two-spot red snapper
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Smalltooth Jobfish, Small toothed jobfish
9,350 records
Bluelined Snapper, Common bluestripe snapper
8,566 records
Grey Jobfish, Green jobfish
8,390 records
Paddletail Snapper, Humpback red snapper
8,003 records
Yellow-margined Snapper, Blacktail snapper
7,191 records
Black and white snapper
4,018 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.