🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Lumpfish, Lumpsucker live?

Cyclopterus lumpus has 25,935 records in 32 countries and territories, from 1639 to 2026. Most records come from Canada.

Lumpfish, Lumpsucker
Lumpfish, Lumpsucker β€” Clumpus / CC BY 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataScorpaeniformesCyclopteridaeCyclopterus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. 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
Canada 8,941
Norway 6,507
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 3,016
Netherlands 1,927
United States 1,467
Russia 722
United Kingdom 631
Sweden 382
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 201
Iceland 143
Faroe Islands 136
Denmark 119
Finland 97
Greenland 84
Germany 83
Poland 64
Belgium 42
ZZ 40
France 38
Ireland 25
Lithuania 15
Jersey 7
Spain 3
Γ…land Islands 2
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 1
Cyprus 1
Estonia 1
Croatia 1
Isle of Man 1
Italy 1
Kazakhstan 1
Namibia 1
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.