🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Spondylus spec live?

Spondylus spec has 711 records in 67 countries and territories, from 1969 to 2016. Most records come from Papua New Guinea.

AnimaliaMolluscaBivalviaPectinidaSpondylidaeSpondylus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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
Papua New Guinea 69
Vanuatu 57
Samoa 43
Solomon Islands 38
Tuvalu 37
Fiji 35
New Caledonia 33
Palau 25
Marshall Islands 23
Wallis & Futuna 23
Bulgaria 22
French Polynesia 22
Poland 20
France 19
Kiribati 19
United States 19
Micronesia 17
Japan 16
Tonga 16
Australia 13
Italy 12
Cook Islands 10
Germany 10
Denmark 10
Egypt 7
New Zealand 7
Spain 6
India 5
Madagascar 5
Austria 4
Belgium 4
Sri Lanka 4
Netherlands 4
Philippines 4
Switzerland 3
Czechia 3
Djibouti 3
Somalia 3
Ukraine 3
United Kingdom 2

Showing the top 40 of 67 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.