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Brown Lipped Snail

Cepaea nemoralis

18,559Records since 2000
MayPeak month
123Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan240
Feb346
Mar883
Apr2,362
May3,317
Jun3,071
Jul2,627
Aug1,759
Sep1,901
Oct1,263
Nov324
Dec405

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England1,018
2Nottinghamshire England861
3East Lothian Scotland705
4Nottingham England599
5City of Edinburgh Scotland573
6Cornwall England468
7Cambridgeshire England362
8Gloucestershire England359
9Oxfordshire England356
10East Riding of Yorkshire England330
11Norfolk England324
12Devon England288
13Argyll and Bute Scotland273
14Scottish Borders Scotland258
15Sheffield England251
13,654 England3,511 Scotland1,130 Wales167 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
18,559
Peak month
May
Counties with records
123
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Cepaea nemoralis
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Helicidae
Genus
Cepaea
Name with authority
Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
43

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q114893 · GBIF 2294280