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Where does the Stoplight parrotfish live?

Sparisoma viride has 81,358 records in 43 countries and territories, from 1843 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Stoplight parrotfish
Stoplight parrotfish — Photo: Adona9 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesScaridaeSparisoma

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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

18432026

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
United States 51,159
Puerto Rico 12,911
Colombia 8,392
US Virgin Islands 3,166
Mexico 1,240
Bonaire 789
Belize 567
Guadeloupe 551
Honduras 456
Bahamas 303
Curaçao 217
Cayman Islands 212
Martinique 192
Cuba 136
Turks and Caicos Islands 133
Panama 111
ZZ 96
Trinidad & Tobago 95
Jamaica 94
British Virgin Islands 77
Bermuda 70
Aruba 54
Venezuela 43
Dominican Republic 35
Saint Martin 34
Dominica 32
Saint Lucia 32
Barbados 26
Saint Barthélemy 23
Sint Maarten 23
St Vincent & the Grenadines 12
Antigua & Barbuda 11
Brazil 10
Grenada 10
Nicaragua 9
Costa Rica 8
Haiti 8
Anguilla 7
St Kitts & Nevis 6
French Guiana 3

Showing the top 40 of 43 places.

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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.