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Where does the Arceye Hawkfish live?

Paracirrhites arcatus has 25,526 records in 48 countries and territories, from 1829 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Arceye Hawkfish
Arceye Hawkfish β€” Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesCirrhitidaeParacirrhites

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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 9,464
American Samoa 3,844
Northern Mariana Islands 3,702
United States Minor Outlying Islands 3,145
Australia 1,278
Guam 1,241
French Polynesia 820
Fiji 223
Tonga 202
RΓ©union 186
New Caledonia 134
Indonesia 112
Palau 99
Christmas Island 90
Japan 85
Micronesia 73
Seychelles 67
Marshall Islands 65
Philippines 57
Solomon Islands 53
Maldives 50
Vanuatu 48
Papua New Guinea 42
Taiwan 37
Mauritius 36
South Africa 34
Comoros 30
Mayotte 28
French Southern Territories 26
Cook Islands 25
Mozambique 23
British Indian Ocean Territory 22
Cocos Islands 21
Kiribati 21
Wallis & Futuna 19
Tanzania 18
ZZ 15
Kenya 14
Malaysia 14
Madagascar 13

Showing the top 40 of 48 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Cirrhitidae.

Forster's Hawkfish
Forster's Hawkfish
13,028 records
Flame hawkfish
2,330 records
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.