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Common Bithynia

Bithynia tentaculata

3,450Records since 2000
JunePeak month
78Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan39
Feb44
Mar167
Apr359
May583
Jun630
Jul542
Aug351
Sep344
Oct191
Nov67
Dec81

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England306
2West Lothian Scotland218
3City of Edinburgh Scotland215
4Falkirk Scotland179
5Somerset England173
6Suffolk England108
7Cambridgeshire England96
8Monmouthshire Wales93
9North Yorkshire England88
10Kent England79
11East Dunbartonshire Scotland79
12East Riding of Yorkshire England78
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland69
14Glasgow City Scotland68
15Doncaster England64
2,084 England908 Scotland325 Wales28 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 78 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,450
Peak month
June
Counties with records
78
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Bithynia tentaculata
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,346
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Family
Bithyniidae
Genus
Bithynia
Name with authority
Bithynia tentaculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q835427 · GBIF 2299854