What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Cheeklined wrasse been recorded?

Oxycheilinus digramma occurrence evidence comes from 1,131 records in 27 countries and territories, from 1860 to 2026. Most records come from American Samoa.

Cheeklined wrasse
Cheeklined wrasse — Photo (display-sized rendition): Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesLabridaeOxycheilinus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,131 records across 27 countries and territories, 1860–2026.

Oxycheilinus digramma · GBIF taxon key 2384370

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-08-23. 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.

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When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

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

18602026

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

Where Cheeklined wrasse has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Cheeklined wrasse. 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
American Samoa 517
Philippines 90
United States Minor Outlying Islands 82
Northern Mariana Islands 68
United States 63
Seychelles 48
Fiji 43
Egypt 42
Guam 35
Indonesia 24
Australia 23
Palau 23
Papua New Guinea 15
Solomon Islands 13
Vanuatu 12
Tonga 8
Thailand 4
Wallis & Futuna 4
Maldives 3
New Caledonia 3
Vietnam 3
Micronesia 2
Myanmar 2
China 1
India 1
Taiwan 1
Yemen 1

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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.