🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Blueband Goby live?

Valenciennea strigata has 3,098 records in 49 countries and territories, from 1909 to 2026. Most records come from Northern Mariana Islands.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesGobiidaeValenciennea

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
Northern Mariana Islands 704
Guam 445
Australia 403
American Samoa 316
French Polynesia 177
Indonesia 155
Fiji 129
New Caledonia 88
Japan 84
Philippines 77
Marshall Islands 53
RΓ©union 50
Tonga 33
Taiwan 30
Solomon Islands 29
United States Minor Outlying Islands 26
Cook Islands 25
Seychelles 24
United States 24
Papua New Guinea 22
Vanuatu 21
Palau 20
Wallis & Futuna 15
Comoros 12
Micronesia 11
ZZ 11
Christmas Island 10
South Africa 10
Malaysia 9
French Southern Territories 9
Mozambique 8
Timor-Leste 8
Cocos Islands 7
Norfolk Island 7
Mauritius 6
Vietnam 6
Madagascar 5
Thailand 5
Mayotte 5
Kiribati 4

Showing the top 40 of 49 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Gobiidae.

Common Goby
25,251 records
Black Goby
19,701 records
Amur goby
Amur goby
13,757 records
Bichique
1,659 records
Cotylopus acutipinnis
693 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.