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Common Bladder Snail

Physa fontinalis

2,764Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
82Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan13
Feb19
Mar148
Apr278
May374
Jun339
Jul442
Aug290
Sep389
Oct281
Nov97
Dec62

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Lothian Scotland220
2Falkirk Scotland218
3Norfolk England201
4City of Edinburgh Scotland200
5Gwynedd Wales70
6Glasgow City Scotland70
7East Riding of Yorkshire England67
8Suffolk England66
9Kent England65
10Dumfries and Galloway Scotland59
11Monmouthshire Wales58
12East Dunbartonshire Scotland57
13Pembrokeshire Wales55
14Cambridgeshire England52
15Somerset England48
1,184 England1,010 Scotland507 Wales15 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,764
Peak month
July
Counties with records
82
Scientific name
Physa fontinalis
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,735
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Family
Physidae
Genus
Physa
Name with authority
Physa fontinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 7568032