๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Stone Loach live?

Barbatula barbatula has 714,744 records in 38 countries and territories, from 1793 to 2026. Most records come from France.

Stone Loach
Stone Loach โ€” Photo: Michal Maลˆas ยท CC BY 3.0 ยท Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataCypriniformesNemacheilidaeBarbatula

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

17932026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
France 609,047
Belgium 42,025
United Kingdom 19,764
Netherlands 17,958
Germany 15,088
Poland 2,916
Sweden 2,881
Austria 810
Russia 794
Luxembourg 793
Spain 492
Ukraine 376
Italy 247
Finland 210
Switzerland 203
Ireland 179
Denmark 162
Japan 157
Lithuania 139
Slovenia 112
Czechia 88
Serbia 57
Croatia 43
Romania 40
Slovakia 27
Latvia 26
Bulgaria 21
Estonia 17
Bosnia & Herzegovina 14
Hungary 13
China 11
Belarus 7
Mongolia 6
Greece 5
North Macedonia 5
Kosovo 5
Montenegro 3
Turkmenistan 3

Related animals

Others in the family Nemacheilidae.

Levantine Loach
277 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.