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Green Worm

Allolobophora chlorotica

2,506Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
74Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan85
Feb71
Mar183
Apr451
May211
Jun108
Jul99
Aug85
Sep114
Oct359
Nov269
Dec164

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Leeds England264
2Worcestershire England140
3Dumfries and Galloway Scotland131
4West Berkshire England84
5Bath and North East Somerset England52
6Gloucestershire England48
7Cambridgeshire England44
8North Yorkshire England44
9Surrey England42
10Cumbria England42
11Dorset England38
12South Lanarkshire Scotland36
13Scottish Borders Scotland33
14Oxfordshire England29
15Bristol, City of England27
1,915 England409 Scotland39 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 74 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,506
Peak month
April
Counties with records
74
Scientific name
Allolobophora chlorotica
Group
Worms (annelids)
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,341
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Clitellata
Order
Crassiclitellata
Family
Lumbricidae
Genus
Allolobophora
Name with authority
Allolobophora chlorotica (Savigny, 1826)
Described
1826
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1746581 · GBIF 4410938