🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Chilean sprat live?

Sprattus fuegensis has 136,327 records in 3 countries and territories, from 1927 to 2025. Most records come from Chile.

AnimaliaChordataClupeiformesClupeidaeSprattus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: December. 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
Chile 136,234
Argentina 82
Falkland Islands 11

Related animals

Others in the family Clupeidae.

Pacific herring
Pacific herring
1,988,333 records
Atlantic herring
Atlantic herring
821,725 records
Chilean herring
788,451 records
European sprat
European sprat
422,799 records
Bonga shad
8,520 records
Delicate round herring
Delicate round herring
5,319 records
Madeiran sardinella
3,282 records
Reeve's shad
1,455 records
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.