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Lesser Bulin

Merdigera obscura

1,329Records since 2000
MayPeak month
58Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan25
Feb28
Mar106
Apr144
May230
Jun191
Jul129
Aug92
Sep126
Oct149
Nov49
Dec40

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England298
2Gloucestershire England174
3East Riding of Yorkshire England45
4Dorset England43
5East Lothian Scotland41
6Worcestershire England34
7Cambridgeshire England31
8Oxfordshire England30
9Aberdeenshire Scotland22
10Norfolk England15
11Surrey England15
12Midlothian Scotland14
13Essex England13
14Herefordshire, County of England13
15Cornwall England12
1,167 England110 Scotland51 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,329
Peak month
May
Counties with records
58
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Merdigera obscura
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,289
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Enidae
Genus
Merdigera
Name with authority
Merdigera obscura (O.F.Müller, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3200072 · GBIF 4566417