What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Straight Needle-Pteropod been recorded?

Creseis acicula occurrence evidence comes from 1,045 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1841 to 2025. Most records come from Australia.

Straight Needle-Pteropod
Straight Needle-Pteropod — Photo (display-sized rendition): Vidal-Miralles, J., Kohnert, P., Monte, M., Salvador, X., Schrödl, M., & Moles, J. · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
GastropodaPteropodaCreseidaeCreseis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

1,045 records across 36 countries and territories, 1841–2025.

Creseis acicula · GBIF taxon key 2293883

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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

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

Where Straight Needle-Pteropod has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Straight Needle-Pteropod. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 733
United States 109
Philippines 79
Egypt 10
Kiribati 10
Mexico 10
Bahamas 8
Dominican Republic 7
Indonesia 7
Cuba 6
Puerto Rico 6
Papua New Guinea 4
Portugal 4
Brazil 3
Belize 3
Costa Rica 2
Spain 2
Greece 2
Italy 2
Montserrat 2
Malaysia 2
Taiwan 2
Uruguay 2
British Virgin Islands 2
US Virgin Islands 2
Anguilla 1
Bermuda 1
Colombia 1
Cabo Verde 1
Fiji 1
France 1
Mozambique 1
French Polynesia 1
Tunisia 1
Türkiye 1
XZ 1
Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.