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Black Arion

Arion ater

4,041Records since 2000
JunePeak month
115Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan20
Feb33
Mar133
Apr383
May709
Jun834
Jul699
Aug452
Sep454
Oct191
Nov56
Dec23

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland570
2North Yorkshire England377
3Argyll and Bute Scotland218
4Nottinghamshire England134
5Scottish Borders Scotland120
6Lincolnshire England83
7Aberdeenshire Scotland82
8Cambridgeshire England79
9Cumbria England78
10East Riding of Yorkshire England62
11Dumfries and Galloway Scotland61
12East Lothian Scotland60
13Fife Scotland60
14Worcestershire England56
15West Lothian Scotland53
2,014 England1,629 Scotland278 Wales101 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 115 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,041
Peak month
June
Counties with records
115
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Arion ater
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Arionidae
Genus
Arion
Name with authority
Arion ater (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
39

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21113 · GBIF 2294101