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Where does the Dusky Farmerfish live?

Stegastes nigricans has 5,069 records in 54 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Dusky Farmerfish
Dusky Farmerfish β€” The original uploader was Elapied at French Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 2.0 fr Β· source
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesPomacentridaeStegastes

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 1,083
French Polynesia 1,036
New Caledonia 734
Tonga 456
Fiji 244
United States Minor Outlying Islands 225
RΓ©union 125
Micronesia 105
Guam 97
Egypt 87
American Samoa 86
Marshall Islands 84
Mauritius 60
Northern Mariana Islands 57
Maldives 53
Vanuatu 47
Japan 42
Palau 33
Kenya 32
Seychelles 32
Cook Islands 29
Papua New Guinea 26
Philippines 25
Solomon Islands 24
Indonesia 20
Taiwan 19
Wallis & Futuna 19
Cocos Islands 18
ZZ 18
British Indian Ocean Territory 17
Kiribati 17
Tanzania 16
Madagascar 14
Samoa 13
Saudi Arabia 11
Mayotte 11
Mozambique 10
French Southern Territories 6
Christmas Island 5
India 5

Showing the top 40 of 54 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.