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Sea Potato

Echinocardium cordatum

3,598Records since 2000
JunePeak month
39Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan95
Feb113
Mar290
Apr350
May498
Jun587
Jul433
Aug368
Sep418
Oct139
Nov89
Dec39

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England38
2Highland Scotland24
3Wirral England21
4Isles of Scilly England12
5Cornwall England10
6Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland10
7Devon England9
8Swansea Wales9
9Cumbria England7
10Pembrokeshire Wales7
11Fife Scotland7
12Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland7
13Argyll and Bute Scotland6
14Gwynedd Wales6
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland6
511 England495 Scotland272 Wales185 Northern Ireland9 Isle of Man

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 39 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,598
Peak month
June
Counties with records
39
Scientific name
Echinocardium cordatum
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,387
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Class
Echinoidea
Order
Spatangoida
Family
Loveniidae
Genus
Echinocardium
Name with authority
Echinocardium cordatum (Pennant, 1777)
Described
1777
Contributing datasets
72

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q838252 · GBIF 2278938