🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Slender escolar live?

Paradiplospinus gracilis has 1,218 records in 17 countries and territories, from 1929 to 2021. Most records come from French Southern Territories.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesGempylidaeParadiplospinus

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

19292021

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
French Southern Territories 317
Heard & McDonald Islands 311
Antarctica 213
South Georgia 123
Australia 30
New Zealand 27
ZZ 16
Argentina 15
Namibia 15
Chile 7
Falkland Islands 4
Saint Helena 4
Uruguay 2
South Africa 2
Bouvet Island 1
Indonesia 1
United States 1
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.