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Pellucid Glass Snail

Vitrina pellucida

1,680Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
76Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan83
Feb71
Mar146
Apr159
May168
Jun103
Jul187
Aug146
Sep192
Oct179
Nov108
Dec116

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England366
2Gloucestershire England81
3Highland Scotland48
4East Lothian Scotland43
5Cornwall England42
6Devon England42
7Worcestershire England41
8York England36
9Norfolk England35
10Redcar and Cleveland England35
11Aberdeenshire Scotland33
12City of Edinburgh Scotland29
13Cambridgeshire England27
14East Riding of Yorkshire England27
15Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland26
1,199 England305 Scotland105 Wales9 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 76 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,680
Peak month
September
Counties with records
76
Scientific name
Vitrina pellucida
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,606
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Vitrinidae
Genus
Vitrina
Name with authority
Vitrina pellucida (O.F.Müller, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1791116 · GBIF 2294290