When it is recorded
Jan1,875
Feb9,257
Mar6,902
Apr1,973
May108
Jun220
Jul4,270
Aug8,517
Sep3,708
Oct1,189
Nov16,112
Dec2,652
GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).
About this species
- Records since 2000
- 56,826
- Peak month
- November
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- Scientific name
- Merluccius merluccius
- Group
- Fish
- NBN Atlas records since 2000
- 608
- Conservation designations
- Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species, Scottish Biodiversity List
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Gadiformes
- Family
- Merlucciidae
- Genus
- Merluccius
- Name with authority
- Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Described
- 1758
- Contributing datasets
- 15
Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q726276 · GBIF 2415643