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Girdled Snail

Hygromia cinctella

3,950Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
91Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan147
Feb179
Mar263
Apr402
May340
Jun188
Jul214
Aug252
Sep598
Oct711
Nov361
Dec294

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England105
2Oxfordshire England104
3York England98
4Kent England94
5Kingston upon Hull, City of England80
6Cornwall England74
7Brighton and Hove England68
8Sefton England67
9Gloucestershire England66
10Devon England54
11Sheffield England52
12City of Edinburgh Scotland46
13Essex England43
14Cambridgeshire England42
15Halton England42
3,363 England87 Scotland490 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 91 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,950
Peak month
October
Counties with records
91
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Hygromia cinctella
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Hygromiidae
Genus
Hygromia
Name with authority
Hygromia cinctella (Draparnaud, 1801)
Described
1801
Contributing datasets
11

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2276111 · GBIF 4565039