Banded Seaperch

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 111 records
February: 93 records
March: 125 records
April: 91 records
May: 86 records
June: 44 records
July: 30 records
August: 73 records
September: 43 records
October: 50 records
November: 65 records
December: 92 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 5–20 m · Deepest record: 63 m

0–10 m: 15 records
10–20 m: 8 records
20–30 m: 1 records
30–40 m: 0 records
40–50 m: 1 records
50–60 m: 0 records
60–70 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 15–22 °C

14–16 °C: 13 records
16–18 °C: 26 records
18–20 °C: 26 records
20–22 °C: 44 records
22–24 °C: 1 records

Photos

(c) Belinda Forbes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Josh Nitschke, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) ttsquid, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) ttsquid, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Lawrence Hylton, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Christopher Mark, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Banded Seaperch, Black-banded Seaperch, Red Spangled Seaperch

Other scientific names: Hypoplectrodes nigrorubrum, Plectropoma nigrorubrum

Similar species

Australian Half-banded Seaperch
Hypoplectrodes maccullochi
Black-banded Seaperch
Hypoplectrodes annulatus
Redbanded Perch
Hypoplectrodes huntii
Jameson's Sea-perch
Hypoplectrodes jamesoni
Hypoplectrodes semicinctum
Hypoplectrodes cardinalis

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
571 open-data records from 1826 to 2023.
Species data updated November 3, 2026.