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Rough whorl snail

Columella aspera

514Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
53Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan14
Feb12
Mar15
Apr37
May77
Jun72
Jul108
Aug52
Sep56
Oct34
Nov11
Dec17

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England61
2Highland Scotland43
3Cornwall England38
4Carmarthenshire Wales28
5Aberdeenshire Scotland27
6Argyll and Bute Scotland24
7Dorset England18
8Powys Wales13
9Worcestershire England11
10Gloucestershire England11
11Cumbria England9
12Dumfries and Galloway Scotland9
13Orkney Islands Scotland9
14Devon England8
15West Lothian Scotland8
269 England155 Scotland75 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 53 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
514
Peak month
July
Counties with records
53
Scientific name
Columella aspera
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
516
Most recorded in
North Yorkshire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Truncatellinidae
Genus
Columella
Name with authority
Columella aspera Waldén, 1966
Described
1966
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3204434 · GBIF 5781046