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Arctic Lyre Crab

Hyas coarctatus

1,353Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
4Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan38
Feb53
Mar90
Apr29
May58
Jun58
Jul85
Aug405
Sep432
Oct11
Nov8
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland4
2Argyll and Bute Scotland1
3Aberdeenshire Scotland1
4Ards and North Down Northern Ireland1
61 England54 Scotland41 Wales77 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 4 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,353
Peak month
September
Counties with records
4
Scientific name
Hyas coarctatus
Group
Crustaceans
NBN Atlas records since 2000
239
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Family
Oregoniidae
Genus
Hyas
Name with authority
Hyas coarctatus Leach, 1815
Described
1815
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3409020 · GBIF 2226649