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Elegant Cuttlefish

Rhombosepion elegans

916Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
3Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb58
Mar420
Apr34
May0
Jun56
Jul13
Aug17
Sep71
Oct8
Nov129
Dec70

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England2
2Cornwall England1
3Orkney Islands Scotland1
8 England2 Scotland1 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 3 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
916
Peak month
March
Counties with records
3
Scientific name
Rhombosepion elegans
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Cephalopoda
Order
Sepiida
Family
Sepiidae
Genus
Rhombosepion
Name with authority
Rhombosepion elegans (Blainville, 1827)
Described
1827
Contributing datasets
6

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 12260277