About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Amphioxus
Species · Other chordates

Amphioxus

Branchiostoma lanceolatum

1,918Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
2Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan60
Feb46
Mar43
Apr170
May139
Jun106
Jul348
Aug454
Sep144
Oct80
Nov182
Dec77

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland1
2Pembrokeshire Wales1
203 England149 Scotland25 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 2 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,918
Peak month
August
Counties with records
2
Scientific name
Branchiostoma lanceolatum
Group
Other chordates
NBN Atlas records since 2000
559
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Leptocardii
Family
Branchiostomatidae
Genus
Branchiostoma
Name with authority
Branchiostoma lanceolatum (Pallas, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2267046 · GBIF 5227671