🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Metridia lucens live?

Metridia lucens has 70,524 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1884 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

AnimaliaArthropodaCopepodaCalanoidaMetridinidaeMetridia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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
United Kingdom 12,400
Canada 8,884
Ireland 6,652
Norway 4,906
France 3,328
Japan 3,247
Iceland 2,329
Faroe Islands 1,899
United States 1,221
Spain 1,108
Portugal 1,108
Antarctica 841
Denmark 764
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 657
New Zealand 419
Sweden 351
Greenland 310
Netherlands 232
ZZ 187
South Georgia 167
Australia 148
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 121
Guernsey 111
Russia 106
Germany 104
Chile 95
Namibia 95
Falkland Islands 59
Argentina 28
Heard & McDonald Islands 9
Isle of Man 9
Brazil 4
South Korea 3
Mexico 3
Belgium 2
Bermuda 1

Related animals

Others in the family Metridinidae.

Metridia pacifica
35,018 records
Metridia longa
32,394 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.