What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Delicate round herring been recorded?

Spratelloides delicatulus occurrence evidence comes from 3,686 records in 38 countries and territories, from 1902 to 2026. Most records come from New Caledonia.

Delicate round herring
Delicate round herring — Photo (display-sized rendition): opisska · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClupeiformesClupeidaeSpratelloides

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

3,686 records across 38 countries and territories, 1902–2026.

Spratelloides delicatulus · GBIF taxon key 2412987

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

4 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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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.

Records over time

19022026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Delicate round herring has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Delicate round herring. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
New Caledonia 1,675
Australia 1,088
Philippines 419
Seychelles 191
Northern Mariana Islands 58
United States 39
Micronesia 35
Marshall Islands 23
Palau 18
Indonesia 17
Solomon Islands 11
Thailand 11
American Samoa 10
Papua New Guinea 10
Mauritius 9
British Indian Ocean Territory 8
South Africa 8
Maldives 7
United States Minor Outlying Islands 7
Sri Lanka 6
Vanuatu 6
Fiji 4
Mayotte 4
Tonga 3
Wallis & Futuna 3
Ecuador 2
Guam 2
Kiribati 2
United Arab Emirates 1
Colombia 1
Egypt 1
Madagascar 1
Malaysia 1
Saudi Arabia 1
Tuvalu 1
Tanzania 1
Vietnam 1
Samoa 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.