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Where does the Topmouth Gudgeon live?

Pseudorasbora parva has 101,778 records in 51 countries and territories, from 1873 to 2026. Most records come from France.

Topmouth Gudgeon
Topmouth Gudgeon — Photo: Seotaro, (cleaned up and denoised by Estrilda, and edited by Laitche) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataCypriniformesCyprinidaePseudorasbora

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. 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

18732026

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
France 52,464
Belgium 27,458
South Korea 12,257
Germany 2,488
Netherlands 1,745
Japan 1,236
Ukraine 917
China 815
Italy 760
Taiwan 324
Czechia 118
Serbia 109
Russia 97
Switzerland 84
Austria 78
Bulgaria 70
Poland 66
Greece 57
Luxembourg 55
United Kingdom 53
Croatia 49
Slovenia 47
Uzbekistan 40
Spain 39
Romania 36
Denmark 34
Slovakia 30
Türkiye 28
Algeria 27
Hungary 26
Mongolia 23
Moldova 22
Georgia 20
North Macedonia 16
Armenia 12
Montenegro 10
Azerbaijan 9
Tajikistan 8
Bosnia & Herzegovina 7
Iran 6

Showing the top 40 of 51 places.

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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.