Animals of Tonga
23 animals on World Animal Map have open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records from Tonga on GBIF: 14 sharks & fish, 5 birds, 2 mammals, 2 insects & other invertebrates. Species marked “introduced” are listed as non-native there by GRIIS checklists. Show on the world map
All 23 animals by group
Whales & dolphins 1
- Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae
Bats 1
- Insular flying fox Pteropus tonganus
Waders, gulls, terns & auks 1
- Sooty tern Onychoprion fuscatus
Seabirds, divers & grebes 4
- Brown booby Sula leucogaster
- Great frigatebird Fregata minor
- Red-footed booby Sula sula
- White-tailed tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
Sharks 1
- Great white shark Carcharodon carcharias
Bony fish 13
- Bluefin trevally Caranx melampygus
- Bluestreak cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus
- Clown triggerfish Balistoides conspicillum
- Emperor angelfish Pomacanthus imperator
- Humphead wrasse Cheilinus undulatus
- Indo-Pacific sailfish Istiophorus platypterus
- Lagoon triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus
- Long-spine porcupinefish Diodon holocanthus
- Moorish idol Zanclus cornutus
- Paracanthurus Paracanthurus hepatus
- Plotosus lineatus Plotosus lineatus
- Reef triggerfish Rhinecanthus rectangulus
- Yellow boxfish Ostracion cubicus
Starfish, sea urchins & relatives 2
- Diadema setosum Diadema setosum
- Linckia laevigata Linckia laevigata
Presence means at least a few wild records with coordinates (and a minimum share of the species’ records, to exclude vagrants and escapes) in GBIF data licensed CC0 or CC BY 4.0. Some species may be missing where open data is scarce.