🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Spotted seabass live?

Dicentrarchus punctatus has 1,880 records in 18 countries and territories, from 1827 to 2026. Most records come from Mauritania.

Spotted seabass
Spotted seabass — Photo: Fernando Lisón Martín · CC BY-SA 2.5 es · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataPerciformesMoronidaeDicentrarchus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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

18272026

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
Mauritania 1,564
Spain 119
Portugal 64
France 53
Senegal 33
United States 10
Israel 8
Morocco 8
Italy 7
Egypt 4
ZZ 3
Bahamas 1
Western Sahara 1
Gambia 1
Croatia 1
Jordan 1
Chad 1
Tunisia 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.