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Where does the Metridia gerlachei live?

Metridia gerlachei has 4,174 records in 7 countries and territories, from 1910 to 2024. Most records come from Antarctica.

Metridia gerlachei
Metridia gerlachei — Bonello G, Grillo M, Cecchetto M, Giallain M, Granata A, Guglielmo L, Pane L, Schiaparelli S (2020) Distributional records of Ross Sea (Antarctica) planktic Copepoda from bibliographic data and samples curated at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA): checklist of species collected in the Ross Sea sector from 1987 to 1995. ZooKeys 969: 1-22. / CC BY 4.0 · source
AnimaliaArthropodaCopepodaCalanoidaMetridinidaeMetridia

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 3,408
Canada 283
South Georgia 90
Australia 70
New Zealand 9
Chile 2
Argentina 1

Related animals

Others in the family Metridinidae.

Metridia lucens
70,524 records
Metridia pacifica
35,018 records
Metridia longa
32,394 records
Pleuromamma robusta
13,273 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.