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Herring-bone Hydroid

Halecium halecinum

2,909Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
26Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb12
Mar49
Apr130
May386
Jun566
Jul613
Aug505
Sep395
Oct130
Nov22
Dec30

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland32
2Argyll and Bute Scotland27
3Pembrokeshire Wales27
4Gwynedd Wales12
5Isle of Anglesey Wales10
6Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland4
7North Ayrshire Scotland4
8Dorset England3
9Shetland Islands —3
10Scottish Borders Scotland3
11Orkney Islands Scotland3
12Torbay England3
13Sefton England2
14Fife Scotland2
15Aberdeenshire Scotland2
1,192 England674 Scotland421 Wales209 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 26 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,909
Peak month
July
Counties with records
26
Scientific name
Halecium halecinum
Group
Jellyfish, corals and anemones
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,579
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Hydrozoa
Order
Leptothecata
Family
Haleciidae
Genus
Halecium
Name with authority
Halecium halecinum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13651551 · GBIF 4283053