๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Yellow Wrasse live?

Thalassoma lutescens has 16,229 records in 46 countries and territories, from 1885 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Yellow Wrasse
Yellow Wrasse โ€” (c) Susan Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY) / CC BY 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesLabridaeThalassoma

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. 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 5,808
Northern Mariana Islands 3,249
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,987
Tonga 1,061
American Samoa 959
French Polynesia 556
New Caledonia 470
Guam 436
Japan 358
Taiwan 348
Norfolk Island 311
Cook Islands 200
Fiji 102
Marshall Islands 54
Mexico 49
Christmas Island 44
United States 40
Vanuatu 35
New Zealand 18
Chile 16
Egypt 16
Philippines 15
Niue 13
Cocos Islands 12
Micronesia 12
Mauritius 8
Yemen 7
Ecuador 6
Palau 6
Wallis & Futuna 6
Costa Rica 4
Solomon Islands 4
Jordan 2
Kenya 2
Kiribati 2
ZZ 2
China 1
Hong Kong 1
Indonesia 1
India 1

Showing the top 40 of 46 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.