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Prickly Snail

Acanthinula aculeata

530Records since 2000
MayPeak month
48Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb15
Mar30
Apr43
May92
Jun74
Jul41
Aug47
Sep63
Oct47
Nov22
Dec32

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England81
2Gloucestershire England48
3Scottish Borders Scotland27
4Worcestershire England21
5Aberdeenshire Scotland18
6Highland Scotland17
7East Lothian Scotland17
8Sheffield England13
9Redcar and Cleveland England13
10Carmarthenshire Wales12
11Cambridgeshire England10
12Cornwall England10
13Plymouth England8
14Dorset England7
15Pembrokeshire Wales7
379 England109 Scotland38 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 48 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
530
Peak month
May
Counties with records
48
Scientific name
Acanthinula aculeata
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
524
Most recorded in
North Yorkshire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Valloniidae
Genus
Acanthinula
Name with authority
Acanthinula aculeata (O.F.Müller, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1540305 · GBIF 4567429