🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Pleuromamma robusta live?

Pleuromamma robusta has 13,273 records in 31 countries and territories, from 1884 to 2025. Most records come from Ireland.

AnimaliaArthropodaCopepodaCalanoidaMetridinidaePleuromamma

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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
Ireland 1,901
Iceland 985
France 954
United Kingdom 882
Faroe Islands 516
Spain 492
South Georgia 426
Canada 417
Japan 284
Antarctica 224
Norway 194
Portugal 170
United States 86
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 75
Australia 26
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 21
New Zealand 19
Greenland 17
ZZ 4
Chile 3
Brazil 2
Heard & McDonald Islands 2
Mexico 2
Bermuda 1
Ecuador 1
Falkland Islands 1
Ghana 1
Italy 1
Madagascar 1
Namibia 1
Netherlands 1

Related animals

Others in the family Metridinidae.

Metridia lucens
70,524 records
Metridia pacifica
35,018 records
Metridia longa
32,394 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.