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Hairy Snail

Trochulus hispidus

4,146Records since 2000
MayPeak month
109Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan106
Feb152
Mar308
Apr479
May586
Jun518
Jul499
Aug396
Sep459
Oct335
Nov113
Dec144

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England795
2Gloucestershire England167
3East Riding of Yorkshire England123
4Worcestershire England108
5Cambridgeshire England99
6York England96
7Lincolnshire England70
8Dorset England69
9East Lothian Scotland66
10Cornwall England60
11Surrey England58
12Nottinghamshire England54
13Norfolk England53
14Herefordshire, County of England49
15West Lothian Scotland49
3,395 England466 Scotland244 Wales37 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 109 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,146
Peak month
May
Counties with records
109
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Trochulus hispidus
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,922
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Hygromiidae
Genus
Trochulus
Name with authority
Trochulus hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1500646 · GBIF 7363930