🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Metridia longa live?

Metridia longa has 32,394 records in 26 countries and territories, from 1872 to 2026. Most records come from Canada.

AnimaliaArthropodaCopepodaCalanoidaMetridinidaeMetridia

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
Canada 10,050
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 5,607
Russia 5,463
Norway 1,169
Greenland 698
United States 367
Faroe Islands 319
Iceland 270
United Kingdom 148
Sweden 111
Portugal 104
Belgium 70
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 60
Mexico 51
Denmark 40
Chile 12
Antarctica 10
Germany 6
France 2
Ireland 2
ZZ 2
Bermuda 1
China 1
Spain 1
Japan 1
Peru 1

Related animals

Others in the family Metridinidae.

Metridia lucens
70,524 records
Metridia pacifica
35,018 records
Pleuromamma robusta
13,273 records
Metridia gerlachei
Metridia gerlachei
4,174 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.