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Norway king crab

Lithodes maja

3,906Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
2Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan317
Feb804
Mar3
Apr7
May1
Jun15
Jul128
Aug1,679
Sep921
Oct2
Nov26
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland1
2Argyll and Bute Scotland1
3 England23 Scotland

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

About this species

Records since 2000
3,906
Peak month
August
Counties with records
2
Scientific name
Lithodes maja
Group
Crustaceans
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Family
Lithodidae
Genus
Lithodes
Name with authority
Lithodes maja (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
8

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3232159 · GBIF 2224343