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Sea Comb

Plocamium cartilagineum

4,418Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
34Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan27
Feb66
Mar92
Apr333
May577
Jun642
Jul669
Aug907
Sep782
Oct211
Nov47
Dec37

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Pembrokeshire Wales62
2East Riding of Yorkshire England58
3Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland49
4Isle of Anglesey Wales46
5Highland Scotland37
6Ards and North Down Northern Ireland35
7Gwynedd Wales34
8Norfolk England33
9Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland29
10Argyll and Bute Scotland27
11Cornwall England23
12Kingston upon Hull, City of England20
13Shetland Islands —19
14Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland16
15Devon England15
1,622 England783 Scotland713 Wales838 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 34 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,418
Peak month
August
Counties with records
34
Scientific name
Plocamium cartilagineum
Group
Seaweeds and algae
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,192
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Plocamiales
Family
Plocamiaceae
Genus
Plocamium
Name with authority
Plocamium cartilagineum (L.) P.S.Dixon
Contributing datasets
58

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21344680 · GBIF 5278595