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Prickly Jingle

Heteranomia squamula

923Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
24Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan10
Feb14
Mar42
Apr41
May83
Jun98
Jul165
Aug178
Sep143
Oct58
Nov41
Dec41

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Ards and North Down Northern Ireland30
2Orkney Islands Scotland16
3Pembrokeshire Wales12
4Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland10
5Cornwall England8
6Argyll and Bute Scotland8
7Gwynedd Wales8
8Isles of Scilly England8
9Highland Scotland7
10Ceredigion Wales6
11Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland6
12Plymouth England6
13North Yorkshire England5
14Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland5
15East Lothian Scotland4
118 England150 Scotland84 Wales108 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 24 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
923
Peak month
August
Counties with records
24
Scientific name
Heteranomia squamula
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
507
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Pectinida
Family
Anomiidae
Genus
Heteranomia
Name with authority
Heteranomia squamula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
47

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3805552 · GBIF 2286126