🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Vahl's eelpout live?

Lycodes gracilis has 8,278 records in 9 countries and territories, from 1889 to 2025. Most records come from Norway.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesZoarcidaeLycodes

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. 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

18892025

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
Norway 5,746
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 1,696
Russia 413
Denmark 195
Sweden 138
Greenland 34
United Kingdom 7
Faroe Islands 2
Iceland 1

Related animals

Others in the family Zoarcidae.

Doubleline Eelpout
3,453 records
halfnaked lycodes
1,393 records
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.