🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Imitator Damsel live?

Pomacentrus imitator has 1,615 records in 11 countries and territories, from 1958 to 2023. Most records come from Tonga.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesPomacentridaePomacentrus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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

19582023

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
Tonga 1,392
Australia 110
Fiji 89
Wallis & Futuna 13
New Caledonia 4
Puerto Rico 2
United Arab Emirates 1
Indonesia 1
India 1
Solomon Islands 1
Vanuatu 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.