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Common Rough Woodlouse

Porcellio scaber

6,413Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
119Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan188
Feb265
Mar434
Apr1,059
May751
Jun790
Jul583
Aug659
Sep510
Oct513
Nov280
Dec235

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gwynedd Wales396
2Devon England240
3Sefton England234
4Kent England233
5Cornwall England202
6Argyll and Bute Scotland181
7Highland Scotland136
8Somerset England96
9Surrey England91
10Oxfordshire England86
11Kingston upon Hull, City of England85
12North Yorkshire England83
13Sheffield England78
14Essex England75
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland75
4,506 England895 Scotland801 Wales125 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 119 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,413
Peak month
April
Counties with records
119
Scientific name
Porcellio scaber
Group
Crustaceans
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,399
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Isopoda
Family
Porcellionidae
Genus
Porcellio
Name with authority
Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804
Described
1804
Contributing datasets
44

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21171 · GBIF 6284337