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Coral Weed

Corallina officinalis

7,820Records since 2000
MayPeak month
43Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan183
Feb340
Mar423
Apr899
May1,190
Jun883
Jul908
Aug1,158
Sep878
Oct408
Nov139
Dec254

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England532
2Cornwall England335
3Ceredigion Wales314
4South Ayrshire Scotland199
5East Riding of Yorkshire England180
6Pembrokeshire Wales163
7Devon England138
8Ards and North Down Northern Ireland118
9Argyll and Bute Scotland92
10Scottish Borders Scotland91
11North Tyneside England85
12Gwynedd Wales82
13Isle of Anglesey Wales82
14Torbay England82
15Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland81
4,096 England1,033 Scotland1,726 Wales595 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 43 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,820
Peak month
May
Counties with records
43
Scientific name
Corallina officinalis
Group
Seaweeds and algae
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,798
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Corallinales
Family
Corallinaceae
Genus
Corallina
Name with authority
Corallina officinalis L.
Contributing datasets
59

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1784208 · GBIF 5276013