Common Scalyfin

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 64 records
February: 52 records
March: 76 records
April: 57 records
May: 18 records
June: 19 records
July: 16 records
August: 17 records
September: 10 records
October: 17 records
November: 29 records
December: 66 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 2–8 m · Deepest record: 13.5 m

0–10 m: 20 records
10–20 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 18–23 °C

18–20 °C: 11 records
20–22 °C: 25 records
22–24 °C: 5 records

Photos

(c) leonie_rennie, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Belinda Forbes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Belinda Forbes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Bruce Deagle, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Zara, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Wendy St. John, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Common Scalyfin, McCulloch's Parma, McCulloch's Scalyfin, McCulloch’s Scalyfin

Names in 1 more languages

Spanish: Teniente de McCulloch

Similar species

Black Scalyfin
Parma alboscapularis
scalyfin
Parma microlepis
Big-scaled Parma
Parma oligolepis
Banded Parma
Parma polylepis
Girdled Parma
Parma unifasciata
Common Scalyfin
Parma victoriae

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).
1,098 open-data records from 1954 to 2023.
Species data updated November 5, 2026.