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Glycera alba

7,155Records since 2000
JunePeak month
13Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan295
Feb422
Mar640
Apr767
May920
Jun1,164
Jul886
Aug618
Sep479
Oct338
Nov181
Dec182

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland38
2Shetland Islands —29
3Argyll and Bute Scotland13
4Pembrokeshire Wales8
5Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland4
6Cumbria England3
7Redcar and Cleveland England3
8Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland2
9Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland2
10Suffolk England1
11Cornwall England1
12Ceredigion Wales1
13Orkney Islands Scotland1
399 England3,490 Scotland227 Wales377 Northern Ireland1 Isle of Man

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 13 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,155
Peak month
June
Counties with records
13
Group
Worms (annelids)
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,597
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Polychaeta
Order
Phyllodocida
Family
Glyceridae
Genus
Glycera
Name with authority
Glycera alba (O.F.Müller, 1776)
Described
1776
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q4351094 · GBIF 5195463