What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Spectacled Tetraka been recorded?

Xanthomixis zosterops occurrence evidence comes from 141 records in 1 countries and territories, from 1957 to 2024. Most records come from Madagascar.

Spectacled Tetraka
Spectacled Tetraka — Photo (display-sized rendition): Francesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesBernieridaeXanthomixis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

141 records across 1 countries and territories, 1957–2024.

Xanthomixis zosterops · GBIF taxon key 7340876

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: November.

3 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

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Peak month: November. 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

19572024

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

Where Spectacled Tetraka has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Spectacled Tetraka. 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
Madagascar 141

Related animals

Others in the family Bernieridae.

Long-billed Bernieria
Long-billed Bernieria
197 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.