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Common Basket-shell

Varicorbula gibba

8,339Records since 2000
JunePeak month
17Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan277
Feb438
Mar935
Apr1,187
May1,077
Jun1,374
Jul1,077
Aug666
Sep611
Oct208
Nov242
Dec126

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland37
2Mid and East Antrim Northern Ireland35
3Argyll and Bute Scotland34
4Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland28
5Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland25
6Ards and North Down Northern Ireland22
7Pembrokeshire Wales21
8Cornwall England5
9Devon England5
10Shetland Islands —5
11Belfast Northern Ireland3
12Redcar and Cleveland England3
13North Ayrshire Scotland2
14Kent England1
15Ceredigion Wales1
403 England2,823 Scotland575 Wales1,363 Northern Ireland3 Isle of Man

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 17 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,339
Peak month
June
Counties with records
17
Scientific name
Varicorbula gibba
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
53
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Myida
Family
Corbulidae
Genus
Varicorbula
Name with authority
Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792)
Described
1792
Contributing datasets
45

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q105983435 · GBIF 2288891