 "Kyphosus sectatrix" has a circumglobal distribution and is found in the warmer areas of all the world's oceans.In the eastern Atlantic Ocean it has been recorded from St Helena and Ascension Island the Azores, the Canary Islands, it has been reported from the Algarve in Portugal and there are records from the Meditettanean.In the western Atlantic it is found off Bermuda, in the Sargasso Sea, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.