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Blue-grey Worm

Octolasion cyaneum

463Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
58Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan24
Feb25
Mar29
Apr86
May36
Jun21
Jul8
Aug4
Sep22
Oct72
Nov38
Dec15

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England45
2Leeds England32
3Highland Scotland27
4Scottish Borders Scotland17
5Aberdeenshire Scotland16
6Bath and North East Somerset England10
7Surrey England9
8Perth and Kinross Scotland9
9Oxfordshire England8
10West Berkshire England8
11Bristol, City of England8
12Herefordshire, County of England8
13Aberdeen City Scotland8
14South Lanarkshire Scotland8
15Gloucestershire England7
313 England132 Scotland13 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
463
Peak month
April
Counties with records
58
Scientific name
Octolasion cyaneum
Group
Worms (annelids)
NBN Atlas records since 2000
454
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Clitellata
Order
Crassiclitellata
Family
Lumbricidae
Genus
Octolasion
Name with authority
Octolasion cyaneum (Savigny, 1826)
Described
1826
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q5141190 · GBIF 2307766