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Cellar Snail

Oxychilus cellarius

3,561Records since 2000
MayPeak month
100Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan69
Feb99
Mar241
Apr494
May566
Jun465
Jul379
Aug293
Sep415
Oct312
Nov74
Dec125

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England822
2East Lothian Scotland171
3Gloucestershire England158
4East Riding of Yorkshire England120
5York England112
6Scottish Borders Scotland108
7City of Edinburgh Scotland95
8Highland Scotland85
9Argyll and Bute Scotland67
10Dumfries and Galloway Scotland63
11Leeds England61
12Worcestershire England55
13West Lothian Scotland54
14Midlothian Scotland53
15Cornwall England43
2,314 England1,001 Scotland206 Wales36 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 100 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,561
Peak month
May
Counties with records
100
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Oxychilus cellarius
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Oxychilidae
Genus
Oxychilus
Name with authority
Oxychilus cellarius (O.F.Müller, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q179159 · GBIF 5190768