🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Nerita plicata live?

Nerita plicata has 3,355 records in 61 countries and territories, from 1859 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Nerita plicata
Nerita plicata — Photo: H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaMolluscaGastropodaCycloneritidaNeritidaeNerita

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. 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
Australia 668
French Polynesia 295
Indonesia 257
South Africa 195
Japan 179
Taiwan 161
Fiji 107
Cook Islands 102
Philippines 96
New Caledonia 90
Tanzania 88
Kenya 78
Vanuatu 73
Guam 68
Seychelles 68
Marshall Islands 62
Mauritius 62
Papua New Guinea 57
American Samoa 51
Maldives 51
Madagascar 43
India 32
Samoa 31
United States 28
Christmas Island 27
Solomon Islands 26
Palau 24
Cocos Islands 23
Réunion 23
Mozambique 22
Micronesia 20
Kiribati 20
Comoros 19
Sri Lanka 16
Tonga 16
United States Minor Outlying Islands 15
Malaysia 13
China 8
Northern Mariana Islands 8
Chile 7

Showing the top 40 of 61 places.

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.