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Gudgeon

Gobio gobio

741Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
52Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb8
Mar8
Apr7
May27
Jun68
Jul99
Aug155
Sep132
Oct62
Nov4
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Powys Wales43
2Cambridgeshire England38
3Cheshire East England27
4Suffolk England23
5Wrexham Wales23
6Monmouthshire Wales16
7Essex England13
8North Yorkshire England10
9Kent England9
10Oxfordshire England9
11Carmarthenshire Wales8
12Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland8
13Tameside England7
14Norfolk England6
15Dorset England6
538 England7 Scotland163 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 52 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
741
Peak month
August
Counties with records
52
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Gobio gobio
Group
Fish
NBN Atlas records since 2000
638
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cypriniformes
Family
Cyprinidae
Genus
Gobio
Name with authority
Gobio gobio (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q237619 · GBIF 4409628