Where Queen angelfish has been recorded

Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)

United States of America — 25,867 records; Puerto Rico — 9,511 records; Brazil — 1,995 records; Mexico — 518 records; Virgin Islands (U.S.) — 407 records; Colombia — 353 records; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba — 226 records; Honduras — 186 records; Bahamas — 161 records; Belize — 160 records; Guadeloupe — 148 records; Cayman Islands — 72 records; Martinique — 70 records; Cuba — 64 records; Bermuda — 38 records.

Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 5211452) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=5211452&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-25.

Marine regions with a WoRMS distribution record

Gulf of Mexico; Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea; Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone.

Source: WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276012 (CC BY 4.0). Accessed 2026-09-25.

How to read this map

The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 40,077 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 33 of the 46 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 35 records in total (Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Haiti, Barbados, Anguilla, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, France).

15 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 5211452) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=5211452&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276012 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-25.