🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Two-lined monocle bream live?

Scolopsis bilineata has 8,386 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1856 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesNemipteridaeScolopsis

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. 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 4,494
New Caledonia 669
Indonesia 549
Tonga 517
Fiji 448
Philippines 311
Maldives 162
United States 156
Solomon Islands 131
Palau 120
Thailand 115
Malaysia 100
Papua New Guinea 96
Japan 94
Vanuatu 94
Samoa 92
Taiwan 86
India 47
Micronesia 38
Vietnam 24
Timor-Leste 15
Sri Lanka 7
Guam 6
Cocos Islands 3
Myanmar 3
Wallis & Futuna 3
China 2
Marshall Islands 2
Cambodia 1
Singapore 1
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.