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Where Lemon damsel has been recorded

GBIF occurrence records for Pomacentrus moluccensis, mapped and tabulated by country.

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Where Lemon damsel has been recorded

Distribution map plotted from GBIF.org occurrence records; basemap Natural Earth 110m · GBIF records CC0 / CC BY; Natural Earth public domain

9,807 georeferenced occurrence records with coordinates are published for Pomacentrus moluccensis through GBIF, from 29 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.

Quick Facts

Georeferenced records
9,807
Mapped locations
238
Inland records omitted
28
Gbif taxonkey
2398282

Facts from the source article.

Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)

Australia — 7,741 records; New Caledonia — 527 records; Indonesia — 461 records; Philippines — 277 records; Thailand — 158 records; Palau — 112 records; Solomon Islands — 89 records; Papua New Guinea — 76 records; Malaysia — 75 records; Fiji — 71 records; Vanuatu — 64 records; Japan — 59 records; Tonga — 28 records; Timor-Leste — 16 records; Viet Nam — 14 records.

Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 2398282) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2398282&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-25.

Where Lemon damsel has been recorded
Where Lemon damsel has been recorded. Image: Distribution of Pomacentrus moluccensis plotted from 9,807 GBIF occurrence records (taxonKey 2398282), accessed 2026-09-25. Basemap: Natural Earth 110m. · GBIF records CC0 / CC BY; Natural Earth public domain · source not recorded

How to read this map

The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 9,807 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 20 of the 29 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 42 records in total (Tonga, Egypt, Christmas Island, Micronesia (Federated States of), Northern Mariana Islands, Cook Islands, Israel, Norfolk Island).

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 2398282) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2398282&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277159 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-25.

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