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Red Thread-gilled Worm

Cirriformia tentaculata

4,250Records since 2000
JunePeak month
19Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan97
Feb292
Mar484
Apr416
May500
Jun626
Jul434
Aug476
Sep432
Oct201
Nov63
Dec95

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Suffolk England25
2Isle of Wight England21
3Shetland Islands —20
4Essex England19
5Cornwall England10
6Ceredigion Wales10
7Argyll and Bute Scotland7
8Highland Scotland6
9Pembrokeshire Wales6
10Devon England3
11North Yorkshire England3
12Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland3
13Plymouth England3
14East Lothian Scotland2
15Redcar and Cleveland England2
294 England2,053 Scotland128 Wales216 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 19 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,250
Peak month
June
Counties with records
19
Scientific name
Cirriformia tentaculata
Group
Worms (annelids)
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,720
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Polychaeta
Family
Cirratulidae
Genus
Cirriformia
Name with authority
Cirriformia tentaculata (Montagu, 1808)
Described
1808
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1930817 · GBIF 2323895