What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Boa dragonfish been recorded?

Stomias boa occurrence evidence comes from 904 records in 45 countries and territories, from 1879 to 2024. Most records come from United States.

Boa dragonfish
Boa dragonfish — Photo (display-sized rendition): Skye McDavid · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
StomiiformesStomiidaeStomias

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

904 records across 45 countries and territories, 1879–2024.

Stomias boa · GBIF taxon key 2346868

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-22. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

10 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: September. 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

18792024

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

Where Boa dragonfish has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Boa dragonfish. 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
United States 265
Bermuda 184
Italy 51
Spain 39
Ireland 29
Portugal 28
Algeria 22
Chile 21
Greece 13
Senegal 12
Morocco 11
Australia 10
Saint Helena 8
Angola 7
Canada 7
Ecuador 7
France 7
New Zealand 7
Greenland 6
South Africa 6
Western Sahara 4
Gambia 4
Guinea-Bissau 4
New Caledonia 4
Cabo Verde 3
United Kingdom 3
Sierra Leone 3
Antarctica 2
Brazil 2
South Georgia 2
Iceland 2
Peru 2
Somalia 2
São Tomé & Príncipe 2
Germany 1
Falkland Islands 1
Faroe Islands 1
Ghana 1
Israel 1
Mauritania 1

Showing the top 40 of 45 places.

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.