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Baked Bean Ascidian

Dendrodoa grossularia

8,072Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
31Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan210
Feb296
Mar451
Apr489
May835
Jun1,126
Jul910
Aug1,253
Sep1,747
Oct371
Nov147
Dec41

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gwynedd Wales242
2Highland Scotland64
3Pembrokeshire Wales60
4Ards and North Down Northern Ireland53
5Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland31
6Argyll and Bute Scotland24
7Isle of Anglesey Wales24
8Plymouth England24
9Torbay England22
10Shetland Islands —19
11Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland19
12Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland18
13Dorset England17
14Devon England15
15Mid and East Antrim Northern Ireland15
2,325 England856 Scotland1,258 Wales561 Northern Ireland21 Isle of Man

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 31 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,072
Peak month
September
Counties with records
31
Scientific name
Dendrodoa grossularia
Group
Sea squirts
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,209
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Ascidiacea
Order
Stolidobranchia
Family
Styelidae
Genus
Dendrodoa
Name with authority
Dendrodoa grossularia (Van Beneden, 1846)
Described
1846
Contributing datasets
55

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q4918755 · GBIF 2332380