🇹🇰Animals recorded in Tokelau

Which animals have been recorded in Tokelau? 3,820 occurrence records cover 140 species. The most-recorded are listed below, with what the record pattern says about each one. 206 is the most-recorded animal class; the leading species records include Lucicutia flavicornis, Twisted wing parasite, Narella horrida.

• 3,820 records
• 140 species
• 23 classes

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The most-recorded species in this dataset include Lucicutia flavicornis, Twisted wing parasite, Narella horrida. Use the country list as evidence of recorded wildlife, then open a species to compare its records across other countries and months. It is not a complete habitat or population census.

Most-recorded animals in Tokelau

	Animal	Group	Records
	Lucicutia flavicornis	Copepoda Lucicutiidae	137
	Twisted wing parasite Xenos pecki	Insecta Xenidae	86
	Narella horrida	Anthozoa Primnoidae	67
	beaked stony coral Enallopsammia rostrata	Anthozoa Dendrophylliidae	57
	Calocalanus minutus	Copepoda Paracalanidae	57
	Clausocalanus furcatus	Copepoda Clausocalanidae	39
	Triconia borealis	Copepoda Oncaeidae	36
	Whitecheek surgeonfish Acanthurus nigricans	— Acanthuridae	35
	Paracalanus parvus	Copepoda Paracalanidae	32
	Haloptilus acutifrons	Copepoda Augaptilidae	28
	Victorgorgia alba	Anthozoa Victorgorgiidae	28
	Oncaea notopus	Copepoda Oncaeidae	24
	Cosmocalanus darwinii	Copepoda Calanidae	21
	Centropages violaceus	Copepoda Centropagidae	17
	Regal angelfish Pygoplites diacanthus	— Pomacanthidae	16
	Cordagalma ordinatum	Hydrozoa Cordagalmatidae	15
	Jewel Jelly Liriope tetraphylla	Hydrozoa Geryoniidae	14
	Blue-spotted Grouper Cephalopholis argus	— Serranidae	14
	Corycaeus speciosus	Copepoda Corycaeidae	13
	Paracalanus aculeatus	Copepoda Paracalanidae	12
	Doliolum nationalis	Thaliacea Doliolidae	11
	Charistephane fugiens	Tentaculata Mertensiidae	10
	Reeve's shad Tenualosa reevesii	— Clupeidae	10
	Lemonpeel angelfish Centropyge flavissima	— Pomacanthidae	9
	Common Salp Thalia democratica	Thaliacea Salpidae	9
	Oikopleura vanhoeffeni	— Oikopleuridae	8
	Oikopleura dioica	— Oikopleuridae	8
	Pleurocorallium porcellanum	Anthozoa Coralliidae	7
	Bilabrum latius	—	7
	Acartia negligens	Copepoda Acartiidae	6
	Calocalanus pavo	Copepoda Paracalanidae	6
	Monacilla tenera	Copepoda Spinocalanidae	6
	Common Siphonophore Nanomia bijuga	Hydrozoa Agalmatidae	6
	Botrynema brucei	Hydrozoa Halicreatidae	6
	Gonothyraea loveni	Hydrozoa Campanulariidae	6
	Oithona atlantica	Copepoda Oithonidae	6
	Thalia orientalis	Thaliacea Salpidae	6
	Lilyopsis medusa	Hydrozoa Prayidae	6
	Calocalanus plumulosus	Copepoda Paracalanidae	5
	Canthocalanus pauper	Copepoda Calanidae	5
	White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus	Aves Phaethontidae	5
	Venus girdle Velamen parallelum	Tentaculata Cestidae	5
	Paracalyptrophora hawaiiensis	Anthozoa Primnoidae	4
	Salmoxcellia vastator	—	4
	Haloptilus longicornis	Copepoda Augaptilidae	4
	Leafminer fly Ophiomyia cornuta	Insecta Agromyzidae	4
	Candacia truncata	Copepoda Candaciidae	4
	Lilyopsis fluoracantha	Hydrozoa Prayidae	4
	Haliclystus borealis	Staurozoa Haliclystidae	4
	Pegea confoederata	Thaliacea Salpidae	4
	Narella alata	Anthozoa Primnoidae	4
	yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti	Insecta Culicidae	3
	Acrocalanus gracilis	Copepoda Paracalanidae	3
	Chuniphyes multidentata	Hydrozoa Clausophyidae	3
	Dioithona oculata	Copepoda Oithonidae	3
	Pink Helmet Aglantha digitale	Hydrozoa Rhopalonematidae	3
	Pelagobia longicirrata	Polychaeta Lopadorrhynchidae	3
	Benthenchelys cartieri	— Ophichthidae	3
	Discoconchoecia elegans	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	2
	Acartia danae	Copepoda Acartiidae	2