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Kentish Snail

Monacha cantiana

7,788Records since 2000
MayPeak month
87Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan65
Feb128
Mar317
Apr1,011
May1,619
Jun1,494
Jul1,069
Aug743
Sep656
Oct434
Nov88
Dec157

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England926
2East Riding of Yorkshire England341
3Oxfordshire England243
4Kent England236
5York England214
6Kingston upon Hull, City of England201
7Surrey England165
8Cambridgeshire England161
9Essex England139
10Norfolk England135
11Gloucestershire England134
12Lincolnshire England124
13Somerset England119
14Brighton and Hove England108
15East Lothian Scotland92
7,394 England146 Scotland244 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 87 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,788
Peak month
May
Counties with records
87
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Monacha cantiana
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Hygromiidae
Genus
Monacha
Name with authority
Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803)
Described
1803
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3075232 · GBIF 5191102