What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Blueband Goby been recorded?

Valenciennea strigata occurrence evidence comes from 1,335 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1909 to 2025. Most records come from Northern Mariana Islands.

Blueband Goby
Blueband Goby — Photo (display-sized rendition): Leonard Low from Australia · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
PerciformesGobiidaeValenciennea

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,335 records across 30 countries and territories, 1909–2025.

Valenciennea strigata · GBIF taxon key 2377379

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-22. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: April.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

Peak month: April. 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.

Records over time

19092025

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Blueband Goby has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Blueband Goby. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Northern Mariana Islands 458
Guam 372
American Samoa 236
Philippines 31
United States 24
Marshall Islands 23
Fiji 21
Seychelles 19
United States Minor Outlying Islands 19
New Caledonia 15
French Polynesia 15
Palau 13
Indonesia 12
Micronesia 11
Papua New Guinea 10
Australia 9
ZZ 9
Solomon Islands 8
Tonga 6
Wallis & Futuna 6
Comoros 3
Mauritius 3
Vanuatu 3
Japan 2
Kiribati 2
Cocos Islands 1
Cook Islands 1
Kenya 1
Malaysia 1
Mayotte 1

Related animals

Others in the family Gobiidae.

Common Goby
Common Goby
16,763 records
Black Goby
Black Goby
9,074 records
Amur goby
8,320 records
Bichique
31 records
Cotylopus acutipinnis
1 records
Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.