🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Antarctic spiny plunderfish live?

Harpagifer antarcticus has 1,385 records in 6 countries and territories, from 1900 to 2026. Most records come from Antarctica.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesHarpagiferidaeHarpagifer

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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
Antarctica 1,040
French Southern Territories 332
Norway 6
South Georgia 5
Australia 1
United Kingdom 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.