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Painted Top Shell

Calliostoma zizyphinum

14,155Records since 2000
JunePeak month
47Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan194
Feb163
Mar265
Apr920
May1,454
Jun2,991
Jul2,896
Aug1,929
Sep1,999
Oct855
Nov310
Dec96

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Ards and North Down Northern Ireland221
2Devon England184
3Highland Scotland183
4Cornwall England113
5Pembrokeshire Wales111
6Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland88
7Dorset England83
8Isles of Scilly England79
9Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland79
10Norfolk England66
11Plymouth England65
12Argyll and Bute Scotland62
13Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland52
14Torbay England51
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland50
5,167 England2,079 Scotland1,427 Wales1,042 Northern Ireland1 Isle of Man

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 47 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
14,155
Peak month
June
Counties with records
47
Scientific name
Calliostoma zizyphinum
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
14,213
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Trochida
Family
Calliostomatidae
Genus
Calliostoma
Name with authority
Calliostoma zizyphinum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
79

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3140123 · GBIF 2293333