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Angel Snot

Nostoc commune

735Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
64Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan50
Feb33
Mar34
Apr50
May43
Jun23
Jul29
Aug46
Sep87
Oct142
Nov127
Dec70

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England44
2Somerset England24
3East Riding of Yorkshire England22
4Kingston upon Hull, City of England22
5Kent England21
6Cambridgeshire England20
7Cornwall England20
8North Yorkshire England20
9Liverpool England19
10York England17
11Oxfordshire England16
12Halton England16
13Cumbria England12
14Lincolnshire England10
15Bath and North East Somerset England10
637 England43 Scotland45 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 64 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
735
Peak month
October
Counties with records
64
Scientific name
Nostoc commune
Group
Microorganisms and protists
NBN Atlas records since 2000
423
Kingdom
Bacteria
Phylum
Cyanobacteria
Class
Cyanobacteriia
Order
Cyanobacteriales
Family
Nostocaceae
Genus
Nostoc
Name with authority
Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault
Contributing datasets
9

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 8225325