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Brown Shrimp

Crangon crangon

3,094Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
40Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan45
Feb75
Mar64
Apr109
May192
Jun416
Jul384
Aug646
Sep779
Oct174
Nov42
Dec14

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England45
2Highland Scotland36
3Devon England20
4Cornwall England19
5Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland19
6Ards and North Down Northern Ireland17
7Fife Scotland14
8Essex England13
9Argyll and Bute Scotland13
10Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland13
11Gwynedd Wales12
12Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland12
13Orkney Islands Scotland11
14Swansea Wales11
15Pembrokeshire Wales9
803 England343 Scotland433 Wales447 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 40 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,094
Peak month
September
Counties with records
40
Scientific name
Crangon crangon
Group
Crustaceans
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,058
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Family
Crangonidae
Genus
Crangon
Name with authority
Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
69

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q27765 · GBIF 2222188