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Where does the Silvery Rabbitfish live?

Siganus argenteus has 3,446 records in 52 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Silvery Rabbitfish
Silvery Rabbitfish β€” Photo: Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station Β· CC BY 3.0 Β· Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesSiganidaeSiganus

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.

Records over time

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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
Australia 1,152
Marshall Islands 435
French Polynesia 280
Japan 263
Tonga 210
New Caledonia 121
Micronesia 112
Indonesia 69
Solomon Islands 60
RΓ©union 56
Egypt 52
Northern Mariana Islands 52
Philippines 46
Guam 43
Maldives 43
Fiji 36
Palau 35
American Samoa 34
Seychelles 34
Mauritius 30
Cook Islands 28
Tuvalu 25
Papua New Guinea 24
Wallis & Futuna 24
Mayotte 23
Taiwan 22
Cocos Islands 18
India 17
Mozambique 15
China 10
Kiribati 10
Madagascar 9
Samoa 9
ZZ 7
Israel 6
United States 6
Vanuatu 5
Malaysia 4
Yemen 4
British Indian Ocean Territory 2

Showing the top 40 of 52 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.