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Sea Strawberry

Aplidium elegans

518Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
10Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar5
Apr15
May72
Jun64
Jul81
Aug80
Sep137
Oct48
Nov8
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Isles of Scilly England17
2Torbay England12
3Dorset England8
4Pembrokeshire Wales7
5Cornwall England4
6Isle of Anglesey Wales2
7Highland Scotland1
8Gwynedd Wales1
9Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland1
10Plymouth England1
451 England9 Scotland38 Wales7 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
518
Peak month
September
Counties with records
10
Scientific name
Aplidium elegans
Group
Sea squirts
NBN Atlas records since 2000
561
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Ascidiacea
Order
Aplousobranchia
Family
Polyclinidae
Genus
Aplidium
Name with authority
Aplidium elegans (Giard, 1872)
Described
1872
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q4925941 · GBIF 2331013