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Chestnut Worm

Lumbricus castaneus

1,255Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
70Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan84
Feb58
Mar112
Apr313
May127
Jun66
Jul16
Aug10
Sep20
Oct145
Nov133
Dec59

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Leeds England160
2Worcestershire England127
3Surrey England40
4Bath and North East Somerset England31
5Dumfries and Galloway Scotland27
6Cambridgeshire England26
7Bristol, City of England25
8North Yorkshire England22
9West Berkshire England22
10Oxfordshire England20
11Devon England20
12Aberdeen City Scotland20
13Cumbria England19
14Suffolk England16
15Gloucestershire England16
1,071 England151 Scotland19 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 70 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,255
Peak month
April
Counties with records
70
Scientific name
Lumbricus castaneus
Group
Worms (annelids)
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,249
Most recorded in
Leeds, Worcestershire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Clitellata
Order
Crassiclitellata
Family
Lumbricidae
Genus
Lumbricus
Name with authority
Lumbricus castaneus (Savigny, 1826)
Described
1826
Contributing datasets
9

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q901084 · GBIF 4410653