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Type a common name ("robin", "prawn") or a scientific name. 3,945 species indexed.

Occurrence data from GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility — a pooled archive of museum, survey and citizen-science records. Images from Wikimedia Commons, credited per photograph.

What Animal Lives Where shows where species have been recorded. Read how we read the records before treating a sighting as a resident population.