What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Yellowsaddle Goatfish been recorded?

Parupeneus cyclostomus occurrence evidence comes from 3,651 records in 40 countries and territories, from 1901 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Yellowsaddle Goatfish
Yellowsaddle Goatfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesMullidaeParupeneus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

3,651 records across 40 countries and territories, 1901–2026.

Parupeneus cyclostomus · GBIF taxon key 2396655

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: March.

8 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.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. 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

19012026

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

Where Yellowsaddle Goatfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Yellowsaddle Goatfish. 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
United States 1,083
American Samoa 1,029
United States Minor Outlying Islands 412
Northern Mariana Islands 364
Mayotte 274
Guam 109
Seychelles 79
Micronesia 53
Marshall Islands 40
New Caledonia 29
French Polynesia 27
Egypt 23
Philippines 20
Palau 20
Indonesia 14
Mauritius 12
Fiji 9
Australia 6
Papua New Guinea 6
Wallis & Futuna 6
Yemen 4
India 3
Maldives 3
Saudi Arabia 3
Solomon Islands 3
Christmas Island 2
Kiribati 2
Mozambique 2
Samoa 2
South Africa 2
Cook Islands 1
Israel 1
British Indian Ocean Territory 1
Japan 1
Malaysia 1
Tonga 1
Taiwan 1
Vietnam 1
Vanuatu 1
ZZ 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.