What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Ember parrotfish been recorded?

Scarus rubroviolaceus occurrence evidence comes from 5,282 records in 38 countries and territories, from 1889 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Ember parrotfish
Ember parrotfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesScaridaeScarus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

5,282 records across 38 countries and territories, 1889–2026.

Scarus rubroviolaceus · GBIF taxon key 2393790

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: March.

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

JFMAMJJASOND

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

18892026

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

Where Ember parrotfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Ember 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
United States 1,302
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,220
Northern Mariana Islands 1,117
American Samoa 659
Panama 233
Micronesia 165
Mayotte 164
Seychelles 77
Guam 68
Mexico 59
Marshall Islands 38
Costa Rica 33
Maldives 23
Australia 17
Philippines 17
French Polynesia 14
Kiribati 10
Indonesia 8
Colombia 6
Thailand 6
South Africa 6
ZZ 6
Ecuador 5
New Caledonia 4
India 3
Myanmar 3
Solomon Islands 3
Taiwan 3
Yemen 3
Tanzania 2
Cook Islands 1
Christmas Island 1
Kenya 1
Malaysia 1
Papua New Guinea 1
Palau 1
Tonga 1
Samoa 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.