Where Flamefish has been recorded

Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)

United States of America — 18,495 records; Puerto Rico — 2,410 records; Bahamas — 116 records; Belize — 115 records; Virgin Islands (U.S.) — 111 records; Mexico — 110 records; Panama — 89 records; Colombia — 55 records; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba — 52 records; Jamaica — 48 records; Curaçao — 46 records; Martinique — 45 records; Honduras — 40 records; Barbados — 37 records; Trinidad and Tobago — 36 records.

Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 5211761) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=5211761&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-25.

Marine regions with a WoRMS distribution record

North West Atlantic; Gulf of Maine; Gulf of Mexico.

Source: WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159589 (CC BY 4.0). Accessed 2026-09-25.

How to read this map

The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 22,019 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 29 of the 40 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 86 records in total (Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Haiti, Brazil, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Canada, Saint Barthélemy, Turks and Caicos Islands).

8 records plotting inland were omitted: for a marine species those are almost always the holding institution's coordinates rather than a collection site.

Records show where the species has been observed and reported, not a modelled range.

Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 5211761) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=5211761&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159589 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-25.