Where Humpback red snapper has been recorded
GBIF occurrence records for Lutjanus gibbus, mapped and tabulated by country.
7,921 georeferenced occurrence records with coordinates are published for Lutjanus gibbus through GBIF, from 55 countries or marine areas. This page maps those records and lists where they come from. Occurrence records reflect where people have looked as well as where the species lives, so well-surveyed coastlines are over-represented.
- Georeferenced records
- 7,921
- Countries / areas
- 55
- Mapped locations
- 317
- Records sampled for the map
- 3,000
- Inland records omitted
- 30
- Gbif taxonkey
- 2385035
Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)
Australia — 1,274 records; Micronesia (Federated States of) — 1,211 records; United States Minor Outlying Islands — 1,035 records; Northern Mariana Islands — 434 records; Seychelles — 365 records; French Polynesia — 309 records; Marshall Islands — 283 records; New Caledonia — 255 records; Indonesia — 238 records; American Samoa — 232 records; Solomon Islands — 216 records; Maldives — 214 records; Tonga — 191 records; Japan — 171 records; Fiji — 166 records.
Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 2385035) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2385035&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-23.
Marine regions with a WoRMS distribution record
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone; Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone; Somali Exclusive Economic Zone; Madagascar; Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone; Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone; Comoran Exclusive Economic Zone; Red Sea; Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone; South Africa (country); Chagos; Djiboutian Exclusive Economic Zone; Eritrean Exclusive Economic Zone.
Source: WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218480 (CC BY 4.0). Accessed 2026-09-23.
How to read this map
The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 7,921 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 45 of the 55 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 79 records in total (Samoa, French Southern Territories, Sri Lanka, United States of America, United Arab Emirates, Faroe Islands, Somalia, Bahrain).
30 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 2385035) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2385035&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218480 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-23.
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