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Long-legged Spider Crab

Macropodia rostrata

1,693Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
23Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb48
Mar114
Apr35
May67
Jun133
Jul189
Aug502
Sep341
Oct48
Nov36
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England12
2Highland Scotland9
3Shetland Islands —8
4Devon England7
5Argyll and Bute Scotland7
6Pembrokeshire Wales5
7Isle of Anglesey Wales5
8Gwynedd Wales4
9Ards and North Down Northern Ireland4
10Cambridgeshire England3
11Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland3
12Isle of Wight England2
13Portsmouth England2
14Swansea Wales2
15Norfolk England1
175 England149 Scotland120 Wales166 Northern Ireland4 Isle of Man

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
1,693
Peak month
August
Counties with records
23
Scientific name
Macropodia rostrata
Group
Crustaceans
NBN Atlas records since 2000
626
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Family
Inachidae
Genus
Macropodia
Name with authority
Macropodia rostrata (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2338206 · GBIF 5178697