Where Belted cardinalfish has been recorded

Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)

United States of America — 17,669 records; Puerto Rico — 2,351 records; Belize — 114 records; Virgin Islands (U.S.) — 96 records; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba — 63 records; Bahamas — 54 records; Curaçao — 38 records; Honduras — 29 records; Colombia — 27 records; Mexico — 26 records; Cayman Islands — 21 records; Guadeloupe — 15 records; Martinique — 11 records; Cuba — 8 records; Jamaica — 8 records.

Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 5211780) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=5211780&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-25.

Marine regions with a WoRMS distribution record

Gulf of Mexico.

Source: WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273108 (CC BY 4.0). Accessed 2026-09-25.

How to read this map

The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 20,563 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 20 of the 30 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 26 records in total (Jamaica, Barbados, Saint Barthélemy, Bermuda, Panama, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Haiti).

2 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 5211780) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=5211780&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273108 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-25.