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Boa worm

Sthenelais boa

2,768Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
10Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan18
Feb189
Mar439
Apr190
May374
Jun408
Jul341
Aug238
Sep286
Oct100
Nov79
Dec23

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland11
2Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland11
3Cornwall England6
4Pembrokeshire Wales5
5Isle of Wight England5
6Aberdeenshire Scotland4
7Suffolk England2
8Cumbria England2
9East Lothian Scotland2
10Devon England1
219 England536 Scotland210 Wales320 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 10 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,768
Peak month
March
Counties with records
10
Scientific name
Sthenelais boa
Group
Worms (annelids)
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,302
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Polychaeta
Order
Phyllodocida
Family
Sigalionidae
Genus
Sthenelais
Name with authority
Sthenelais boa (Johnston, 1833)
Described
1833
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2343814 · GBIF 2312998