🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Delicate round herring live?

Spratelloides delicatulus has 5,319 records in 54 countries and territories, from 1856 to 2026. Most records come from New Caledonia.

Delicate round herring
Delicate round herring β€” opisska / CC BY 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataClupeiformesClupeidaeSpratelloides

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
New Caledonia 1,685
Australia 1,646
Portugal 464
Philippines 440
Vietnam 208
Seychelles 199
Japan 116
United States 76
Northern Mariana Islands 59
Papua New Guinea 37
Micronesia 35
Marshall Islands 29
Mozambique 28
Cocos Islands 27
Indonesia 24
Palau 24
British Indian Ocean Territory 22
Solomon Islands 14
Thailand 14
Kiribati 12
Fiji 11
Israel 11
Mauritius 11
American Samoa 10
Vanuatu 10
South Africa 10
Maldives 8
Taiwan 8
United States Minor Outlying Islands 7
Mayotte 7
Egypt 6
Guam 6
Sri Lanka 6
Tanzania 6
Wallis & Futuna 6
Tonga 5
Comoros 4
Cyprus 3
Madagascar 3
RΓ©union 3

Showing the top 40 of 54 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.