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Garden Snail

Cornu aspersum

23,914Records since 2000
JunePeak month
126Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan395
Feb575
Mar1,115
Apr2,984
May3,666
Jun4,132
Jul2,834
Aug2,245
Sep2,683
Oct1,723
Nov543
Dec992

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England1,159
2City of Edinburgh Scotland924
3Cornwall England865
4East Lothian Scotland770
5Kent England460
6Sefton England421
7East Riding of Yorkshire England408
8Devon England396
9Somerset England384
10Surrey England373
11Argyll and Bute Scotland353
12York England345
13Sheffield England328
14Cambridgeshire England318
15Oxfordshire England309
17,947 England4,009 Scotland1,781 Wales74 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
23,914
Peak month
June
Counties with records
126
Scientific name
Cornu aspersum
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
19,325
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Helicidae
Genus
Cornu
Name with authority
Cornu aspersum (O.F.Müller, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q22019793 · GBIF 5858758