🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Dragonet live?

Callionymus lyra has 25,014 records in 25 countries and territories, from 1818 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Dragonet
Dragonet — Photo: Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesCallionymidaeCallionymus

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

18182026

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
United Kingdom 7,792
Belgium 5,955
Netherlands 4,121
France 1,633
Ireland 1,132
Jersey 1,005
Norway 932
Portugal 637
Sweden 569
Germany 435
Isle of Man 352
Denmark 162
Spain 131
Guernsey 67
ZZ 60
Morocco 11
Western Sahara 9
Türkiye 3
Faroe Islands 2
Åland Islands 1
Cabo Verde 1
Algeria 1
Italy 1
Monaco 1
Namibia 1
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.