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Sea Gooseberry

Pleurobrachia pileus

5,049Records since 2000
JunePeak month
31Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan327
Feb369
Mar352
Apr414
May491
Jun622
Jul540
Aug520
Sep463
Oct373
Nov308
Dec268

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland19
2Suffolk England12
3Gwynedd Wales9
4Ards and North Down Northern Ireland9
5Argyll and Bute Scotland7
6Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland7
7Orkney Islands Scotland7
8Kent England6
9Norfolk England5
10Cumbria England3
11Isle of Anglesey Wales3
12Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland3
13Dorset England2
14East Riding of Yorkshire England2
15Essex England2
123 England172 Scotland104 Wales46 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 31 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,049
Peak month
June
Counties with records
31
Scientific name
Pleurobrachia pileus
Group
Other invertebrates
NBN Atlas records since 2000
400
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Ctenophora
Class
Tentaculata
Order
Cydippida
Family
Pleurobrachiidae
Genus
Pleurobrachia
Name with authority
Pleurobrachia pileus (O.F.Müller, 1776)
Described
1776
Contributing datasets
39

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1552292 · GBIF 2501136