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Arctic Cowrie

Trivia arctica

1,228Records since 2000
MayPeak month
20Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb29
Mar37
Apr85
May192
Jun183
Jul176
Aug156
Sep170
Oct91
Nov46
Dec36

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland27
2Ards and North Down Northern Ireland19
3Argyll and Bute Scotland17
4Gwynedd Wales11
5Dorset England9
6Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland9
7Devon England8
8Orkney Islands Scotland8
9Isles of Scilly England8
10Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland7
11Isle of Anglesey Wales7
12Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland7
13Pembrokeshire Wales6
14Cornwall England4
15Shetland Islands —4
461 England283 Scotland177 Wales144 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 20 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,228
Peak month
May
Counties with records
20
Scientific name
Trivia arctica
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,175
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Family
Triviidae
Genus
Trivia
Name with authority
Trivia arctica (Pulteney, 1799)
Described
1799
Contributing datasets
55

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3016826 · GBIF 5192808