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Garlic Snail

Oxychilus alliarius

4,561Records since 2000
MayPeak month
109Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan142
Feb191
Mar392
Apr624
May663
Jun436
Jul424
Aug411
Sep487
Oct422
Nov178
Dec141

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England946
2Gloucestershire England172
3East Lothian Scotland115
4Highland Scotland113
5Worcestershire England112
6Scottish Borders Scotland96
7East Riding of Yorkshire England90
8Cornwall England78
9Leeds England78
10City of Edinburgh Scotland68
11Redcar and Cleveland England68
12Herefordshire, County of England65
13Nottinghamshire England64
14Dumfries and Galloway Scotland55
15Lincolnshire England53
3,372 England803 Scotland361 Wales18 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 109 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,561
Peak month
May
Counties with records
109
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Oxychilus alliarius
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Oxychilidae
Genus
Oxychilus
Name with authority
Oxychilus alliarius (J.S.Miller, 1822)
Described
1822
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1777239 · GBIF 5190769