What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Sixline Pigmy Wrasse been recorded?

Pseudocheilinus hexataenia occurrence evidence comes from 3,046 records in 37 countries and territories, from 1902 to 2026. Most records come from American Samoa.

Sixline Pigmy Wrasse
Sixline Pigmy Wrasse — Photo (display-sized rendition): Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesLabridaePseudocheilinus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

3,046 records across 37 countries and territories, 1902–2026.

Pseudocheilinus hexataenia · GBIF taxon key 2383693

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: April.

12 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: April. 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

19022026

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

Where Sixline Pigmy Wrasse has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Sixline Pigmy Wrasse. 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
American Samoa 1,269
United States Minor Outlying Islands 773
Northern Mariana Islands 158
Philippines 110
Fiji 102
New Caledonia 74
Australia 70
Micronesia 55
Palau 55
Seychelles 55
French Polynesia 51
United States 48
Solomon Islands 28
Indonesia 23
Papua New Guinea 23
Guam 18
Marshall Islands 17
Tonga 17
Vanuatu 14
Egypt 13
Maldives 11
Saudi Arabia 10
Wallis & Futuna 9
British Indian Ocean Territory 8
Comoros 7
Mauritius 7
Taiwan 6
Vietnam 3
South Africa 3
Kenya 2
Cook Islands 1
Eritrea 1
India 1
Japan 1
Tuvalu 1
Samoa 1
Yemen 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.