What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Globehead parrotfish been recorded?

Scarus globiceps occurrence evidence comes from 687 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1909 to 2023. Most records come from American Samoa.

Globehead parrotfish
Globehead parrotfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesScaridaeScarus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

687 records across 21 countries and territories, 1909–2023.

Scarus globiceps · GBIF taxon key 2393782

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-22. 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.

3 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

19092023

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

Where Globehead parrotfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Globehead parrotfish. 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 185
Micronesia 128
New Caledonia 78
Guam 75
Australia 60
United States Minor Outlying Islands 54
French Polynesia 31
Northern Mariana Islands 25
Mayotte 12
Seychelles 10
Philippines 8
Marshall Islands 7
Palau 3
Kiribati 2
Solomon Islands 2
Vanuatu 2
Fiji 1
Indonesia 1
Mauritius 1
Papua New Guinea 1
Wallis & Futuna 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.