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Great Pond Snail

Lymnaea stagnalis

4,111Records since 2000
JunePeak month
103Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan51
Feb71
Mar189
Apr457
May683
Jun685
Jul626
Aug497
Sep392
Oct177
Nov77
Dec147

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England265
2Somerset England186
3Falkirk Scotland130
4Suffolk England116
5North Yorkshire England116
6Dumfries and Galloway Scotland99
7Cambridgeshire England93
8East Riding of Yorkshire England93
9Worcestershire England83
10Kent England81
11City of Edinburgh Scotland74
12Surrey England69
13East Lothian Scotland69
14Essex England65
15West Lothian Scotland62
2,984 England685 Scotland383 Wales44 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 103 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,111
Peak month
June
Counties with records
103
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Lymnaea stagnalis
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,690
Conservation designations
Global Red List (JNCC), GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Family
Lymnaeidae
Genus
Lymnaea
Name with authority
Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q911251 · GBIF 2291253