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Where does the Yellowsaddle Goatfish live?

Parupeneus cyclostomus has 8,092 records in 57 countries and territories, from 1769 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Yellowsaddle Goatfish
Yellowsaddle Goatfish β€” Photo: Rickard Zerpe Β· CC BY 2.0 Β· Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesMullidaeParupeneus

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

17692026

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 1,701
American Samoa 1,181
Australia 850
United States Minor Outlying Islands 495
Northern Mariana Islands 483
French Polynesia 401
Egypt 366
Tonga 309
Mayotte 292
New Caledonia 261
Guam 136
Fiji 130
Wallis & Futuna 108
Seychelles 105
Indonesia 100
Marshall Islands 92
Mozambique 90
Japan 73
RΓ©union 73
Micronesia 67
Solomon Islands 66
Palau 63
Vanuatu 61
Niue 60
Maldives 58
Philippines 54
Cook Islands 36
Saudi Arabia 36
Mauritius 34
Taiwan 32
Israel 31
Samoa 26
South Africa 26
Tuvalu 25
Kiribati 23
Papua New Guinea 20
India 19
French Southern Territories 18
Christmas Island 14
ZZ 9

Showing the top 40 of 57 places.

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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.