Where Black butterflyfish has been recorded

Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)

Australia — 2,488 records; New Caledonia — 451 records; Tonga — 120 records; Norfolk Island — 109 records; French Polynesia — 79 records; Fiji — 10 records; Cook Islands — 7 records; American Samoa — 4 records; Vanuatu — 4 records; Viet Nam — 3 records; Wallis and Futuna — 3 records; Kiribati — 2 records; Niue — 2 records; Micronesia (Federated States of) — 1 records; Philippines — 1 records.

Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 2385545) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2385545&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-25.

How to read this map

The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 3,286 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 15 of the 17 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 4 records in total (Wallis and Futuna, Philippines).

23 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 2385545) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2385545&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273337 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-25.