Where Yellow longnose butterflyfish has been recorded
GBIF occurrence records for Forcipiger flavissimus, mapped and tabulated by country.
9,285 georeferenced occurrence records with coordinates are published for Forcipiger flavissimus through GBIF, from 61 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
- 9,285
- Countries / areas
- 61
- Mapped locations
- 386
- Records sampled for the map
- 3,000
- Inland records omitted
- 37
- Gbif taxonkey
- 2385706
Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)
United States of America — 2,166 records; Australia — 1,885 records; Northern Mariana Islands — 785 records; French Polynesia — 645 records; United States Minor Outlying Islands — 624 records; American Samoa — 524 records; Indonesia — 266 records; Mexico — 230 records; Guam — 209 records; New Caledonia — 194 records; Seychelles — 170 records; Philippines — 164 records; Réunion — 140 records; Tonga — 137 records; Fiji — 119 records.
Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 2385706) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2385706&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-23.
Marine regions with a WoRMS distribution record
Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone; Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone; Chagos; Somali Exclusive Economic Zone; Réunion Exclusive Economic Zone; Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone; Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone; Madagascar; Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone; South Africa (country); New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone.
Source: WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218760 (CC BY 4.0). Accessed 2026-09-23.
How to read this map
The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 9,285 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 50 of the 61 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 32 records in total (French Southern Territories, New Zealand, Samoa, British Indian Ocean Territory, France, Yemen, Costa Rica, Eritrea).
37 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 2385706) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2385706&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218760 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-23.
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