🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Insular Goatfish live?

Parupeneus insularis has 5,229 records in 15 countries and territories, from 1899 to 2026. Most records come from United States Minor Outlying Islands.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesMullidaeParupeneus

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,639
Northern Mariana Islands 1,237
United States 1,237
American Samoa 657
French Polynesia 316
Guam 118
Cook Islands 8
Marshall Islands 4
Niue 3
ZZ 3
Micronesia 2
Samoa 2
Japan 1
Maldives 1
Vanuatu 1

Related animals

Others in the family Mullidae.

Manybar goatfish
Manybar goatfish
27,371 records
Yellowstripe Goatfish
9,011 records
Yellowsaddle Goatfish
8,092 records
Yellowfin Goatfish
5,542 records
Long-barbel goatfish
2,305 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.