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Pfeiffer's amber snail

Oxyloma elegans

1,973Records since 2000
MayPeak month
91Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb4
Mar44
Apr213
May434
Jun353
Jul348
Aug206
Sep175
Oct82
Nov9
Dec68

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England222
2Somerset England182
3Dumfries and Galloway Scotland85
4East Riding of Yorkshire England48
5West Lothian Scotland43
6Cambridgeshire England41
7Surrey England40
8Suffolk England39
9Kent England39
10Norfolk England38
11City of Edinburgh Scotland37
12Scottish Borders Scotland34
13Gwynedd Wales30
14Isle of Anglesey Wales30
15Cumbria England29
1,279 England448 Scotland194 Wales49 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 91 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,973
Peak month
May
Counties with records
91
Scientific name
Oxyloma elegans
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Succineidae
Genus
Oxyloma
Name with authority
Oxyloma elegans (Risso, 1826)
Described
1826
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q910785 · GBIF 6098953