What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Stoplight parrotfish been recorded?

Sparisoma viride occurrence evidence comes from 66,346 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1899 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Stoplight parrotfish
Stoplight parrotfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): Adona9 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesScaridaeSparisoma

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

66,346 records across 30 countries and territories, 1899–2026.

Sparisoma viride · GBIF taxon key 2393894

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

7 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: 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

18992026

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

Where Stoplight parrotfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Stoplight 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 50,176
Puerto Rico 12,770
US Virgin Islands 2,907
Belize 206
ZZ 46
Bonaire 41
Mexico 38
Cayman Islands 32
Bahamas 25
Trinidad & Tobago 25
Venezuela 13
Jamaica 11
Honduras 10
Colombia 5
Cuba 5
Curaçao 5
Bermuda 4
Panama 4
Aruba 3
Martinique 3
Turks and Caicos Islands 3
Barbados 2
Dominica 2
Haiti 2
Nicaragua 2
British Virgin Islands 2
Antigua & Barbuda 1
Guadeloupe 1
Indonesia 1
Netherlands 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.