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Green Cellar Slug

Limacus maculatus

7,133Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan342
Feb544
Mar731
Apr923
May887
Jun726
Jul487
Aug483
Sep617
Oct625
Nov474
Dec293

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1York England236
2East Lothian Scotland212
3North Yorkshire England181
4Surrey England178
5Sefton England168
6Kent England166
7Lincolnshire England164
8City of Edinburgh Scotland161
9Essex England157
10Fife Scotland112
11Cambridgeshire England102
12Devon England98
13Nottinghamshire England97
14Leeds England87
15Cumbria England83
5,444 England1,140 Scotland474 Wales68 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,133
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Limacus maculatus
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,602
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Limacidae
Genus
Limacus
Name with authority
Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851)
Described
1851
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14638717 · GBIF 4567599