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Where does the Sixbar wrasse live?

Thalassoma hardwicke has 9,902 records in 52 countries and territories, from 1769 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Sixbar wrasse
Sixbar wrasse β€” Philippe Bourjon / CC BY-SA 3.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLabridaeThalassoma

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 3,322
French Polynesia 1,282
Tonga 914
Indonesia 566
American Samoa 398
New Caledonia 347
Fiji 341
Philippines 296
Maldives 250
United States 240
Taiwan 186
Solomon Islands 163
Guam 134
United States Minor Outlying Islands 111
Japan 101
Vanuatu 91
Mauritius 81
Norfolk Island 68
RΓ©union 68
Micronesia 67
Kenya 65
Papua New Guinea 64
Malaysia 59
Palau 59
Northern Mariana Islands 54
Madagascar 52
Marshall Islands 51
Cook Islands 49
Seychelles 45
Tanzania 45
Christmas Island 42
Mayotte 33
Sri Lanka 31
India 26
Mozambique 23
French Southern Territories 22
British Indian Ocean Territory 21
Timor-Leste 20
Samoa 17
Cocos Islands 14

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.