🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Scythe Triggerfish, Boomerang triggerfish live?

Sufflamen bursa has 11,838 records in 49 countries and territories, from 1769 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Scythe Triggerfish, Boomerang triggerfish
Scythe Triggerfish, Boomerang triggerfish β€” Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataTetraodontiformesBalistidaeSufflamen

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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
United States 5,154
Northern Mariana Islands 1,423
American Samoa 1,104
French Polynesia 859
United States Minor Outlying Islands 821
Guam 454
Indonesia 239
Australia 143
RΓ©union 139
Maldives 129
Tonga 103
Wallis & Futuna 101
Fiji 95
Philippines 85
Solomon Islands 79
Nauru 75
New Caledonia 69
Cook Islands 64
India 63
Niue 59
Kiribati 52
Marshall Islands 45
Vanuatu 41
Seychelles 40
Tuvalu 40
Palau 37
Japan 36
Papua New Guinea 35
Taiwan 35
Christmas Island 28
Mayotte 21
Malaysia 19
Mauritius 17
Thailand 16
Timor-Leste 16
Micronesia 15
Samoa 15
South Africa 12
ZZ 12
French Southern Territories 10

Showing the top 40 of 49 places.

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Titan triggerfish
5,627 records
Wedge Triggerfish, Wedge-tail triggerfish
5,453 records
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.