Where Honeycomb cowfish has been recorded

Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)

United States of America — 18,298 records; Puerto Rico — 2,353 records; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba — 346 records; Brazil — 344 records; Mexico — 197 records; Guadeloupe — 122 records; Virgin Islands (U.S.) — 111 records; Colombia — 90 records; Curaçao — 73 records; Martinique — 46 records; Cayman Islands — 31 records; Trinidad and Tobago — 30 records; Dominican Republic — 25 records; Belize — 24 records; Bahamas — 23 records.

Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 2408186) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2408186&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-23.

How to read this map

The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 22,318 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 34 of the 42 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 13 records in total (Jamaica, French Guiana, Anguilla, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama).

28 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 2408186) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2408186&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1577312 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-23.