🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Skipjack tuna live?

Katsuwonus pelamis has 31,303 records in 131 countries and territories, from 1835 to 2026. Most records come from Portugal.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesScombridaeKatsuwonus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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
Portugal 15,877
United States 2,436
Seychelles 1,328
ZZ 848
Australia 563
Chile 482
Mexico 379
Solomon Islands 362
Mauritania 240
British Indian Ocean Territory 238
United Kingdom 234
Indonesia 216
Gabon 209
Spain 185
Liberia 182
Faroe Islands 159
Mayotte 150
Ghana 141
Senegal 131
Côte d'Ivoire 129
Colombia 127
Sierra Leone 114
Comoros 92
Equatorial Guinea 75
French Polynesia 75
Netherlands 71
São Tomé & Príncipe 70
France 69
Mozambique 65
Norway 65
Madagascar 64
Germany 63
Guinea 62
French Southern Territories 61
Tanzania 57
Canada 54
Nigeria 54
Angola 53
Ecuador 47
Somalia 45

Showing the top 40 of 131 places.

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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.