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Large Amber Snail

Succinea putris

2,971Records since 2000
JunePeak month
97Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan16
Feb36
Mar75
Apr190
May547
Jun622
Jul534
Aug353
Sep304
Oct172
Nov38
Dec66

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England197
2Somerset England129
3Norfolk England128
4Cambridgeshire England81
5Gloucestershire England81
6Suffolk England66
7East Riding of Yorkshire England65
8Worcestershire England62
9Dumfries and Galloway Scotland60
10Cumbria England58
11Surrey England50
12Cheshire East England45
13Scottish Borders Scotland44
14Devon England40
15Carmarthenshire Wales36
2,475 England180 Scotland257 Wales55 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 97 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,971
Peak month
June
Counties with records
97
Scientific name
Succinea putris
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,753
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Succineidae
Genus
Succinea
Name with authority
Succinea putris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1500654 · GBIF 2297206