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Compound sea squirt

Diplosoma listerianum

958Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
32Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb7
Mar9
Apr22
May31
Jun62
Jul130
Aug270
Sep288
Oct78
Nov32
Dec16

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Isle of Anglesey Wales27
2Pembrokeshire Wales25
3Highland Scotland22
4Gwynedd Wales14
5Argyll and Bute Scotland13
6Isles of Scilly England10
7Plymouth England10
8Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland8
9Torbay England8
10Cornwall England7
11Brighton and Hove England6
12Dorset England4
13Devon England4
14Shetland Islands —4
15Swansea Wales4
341 England326 Scotland130 Wales52 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 32 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
958
Peak month
September
Counties with records
32
Scientific name
Diplosoma listerianum
Group
Sea squirts
NBN Atlas records since 2000
897
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Ascidiacea
Order
Aplousobranchia
Family
Didemnidae
Genus
Diplosoma
Name with authority
Diplosoma listerianum (Milne Edwards, 1841)
Described
1841
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q4925350 · GBIF 5200414