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Sand digger shrimp

Bathyporeia pelagica

1,187Records since 2000
MayPeak month
10Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb44
Mar111
Apr66
May218
Jun177
Jul147
Aug175
Sep130
Oct33
Nov65
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Orkney Islands Scotland9
2Devon England8
3Cornwall England6
4Gwynedd Wales3
5Fife Scotland3
6Dorset England2
7Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland2
8Highland Scotland1
9Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland1
10Plymouth England1
232 England73 Scotland268 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 10 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,187
Peak month
May
Counties with records
10
Scientific name
Bathyporeia pelagica
Group
Crustaceans
NBN Atlas records since 2000
591
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Amphipoda
Family
Bathyporeiidae
Genus
Bathyporeia
Name with authority
Bathyporeia pelagica (Spence Bate, 1857)
Described
1857
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2140398 · GBIF 2216107