🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Madeiran sardinella live?

Sardinella maderensis has 3,282 records in 31 countries and territories, from 1830 to 2026. Most records come from Mauritania.

AnimaliaChordataClupeiformesClupeidaeSardinella

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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
Mauritania 1,519
Senegal 675
Côte d'Ivoire 130
Nigeria 129
Ghana 99
Gabon 80
Liberia 70
Gambia 67
Spain 61
Sierra Leone 60
Angola 56
Cameroon 48
Guinea-Bissau 44
Lebanon 38
Guinea 36
Israel 30
Congo 26
Cabo Verde 23
Equatorial Guinea 22
DR Congo 20
Benin 14
Togo 12
Egypt 7
Portugal 4
Türkiye 4
Western Sahara 2
São Tomé & Príncipe 2
India 1
Morocco 1
Tunisia 1
ZZ 1

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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.