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Little Seabristle

Plumularia setacea

2,524Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
23Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan49
Feb47
Mar59
Apr107
May175
Jun397
Jul472
Aug517
Sep349
Oct174
Nov94
Dec42

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Isle of Anglesey Wales21
2Norfolk England17
3Argyll and Bute Scotland13
4Pembrokeshire Wales12
5Highland Scotland11
6Dorset England8
7Mid and East Antrim Northern Ireland8
8Essex England7
9Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland6
10Cornwall England4
11Gwynedd Wales4
12Torbay England3
13Suffolk England2
14Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland2
15North Ayrshire Scotland2
907 England166 Scotland157 Wales69 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 23 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,524
Peak month
August
Counties with records
23
Scientific name
Plumularia setacea
Group
Jellyfish, corals and anemones
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,348
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Hydrozoa
Order
Leptothecata
Family
Plumulariidae
Genus
Plumularia
Name with authority
Plumularia setacea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2321491 · GBIF 2266926