🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Bar-finned Damsel live?

Pomacentrus brachialis has 4,984 records in 25 countries and territories, from 1867 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesPomacentridaePomacentrus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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
Australia 2,794
American Samoa 1,129
Tonga 244
United States 224
Philippines 198
Indonesia 97
United States Minor Outlying Islands 83
Vanuatu 45
Solomon Islands 40
New Caledonia 36
Papua New Guinea 25
Marshall Islands 15
Fiji 12
Palau 9
Timor-Leste 9
Micronesia 4
Malaysia 4
Seychelles 3
Taiwan 3
ZZ 3
Sri Lanka 2
Maldives 2
India 1
Vietnam 1
Samoa 1

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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.