🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Chama spec live?

Chama spec has 1,072 records in 54 countries and territories, from 1962 to 2007. Most records come from French Polynesia.

AnimaliaMolluscaBivalviaVeneridaChamidaeChama

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
French Polynesia 368
Cook Islands 202
Papua New Guinea 78
Marshall Islands 54
Wallis & Futuna 54
Palau 42
United States 42
Solomon Islands 31
Kiribati 25
Brazil 23
New Caledonia 17
Micronesia 12
Italy 12
New Zealand 10
Spain 7
Fiji 7
United Kingdom 7
Indonesia 6
Romania 6
Tuvalu 6
Vanuatu 6
Germany 4
Japan 4
Bahamas 3
Egypt 3
France 3
Haiti 3
Pakistan 3
Venezuela 3
Belgium 2
Dominican Republic 2
Eritrea 2
Greece 2
Samoa 2
United Arab Emirates 1
Angola 1
Bulgaria 1
China 1
Ecuador 1
Croatia 1

Showing the top 40 of 54 places.

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.