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Marine worm

Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata

3,912Records since 2000
MayPeak month
6Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan200
Feb343
Mar300
Apr309
May489
Jun360
Jul481
Aug418
Sep277
Oct294
Nov87
Dec152

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland26
2Shetland Islands —15
3Cornwall England4
4Argyll and Bute Scotland3
5Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland3
6Orkney Islands Scotland3
44 England2,806 Scotland8 Wales653 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 6 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,912
Peak month
May
Counties with records
6
Scientific name
Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata
Group
Worms (annelids)
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,570
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Polychaeta
Family
Spionidae
Genus
Pseudopolydora
Name with authority
Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata (Okuda, 1937)
Described
1937
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2411466 · GBIF 2320993