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Slender Spider Crab

Macropodia tenuirostris

1,100Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
7Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan18
Feb50
Mar325
Apr48
May10
Jun72
Jul71
Aug137
Sep151
Oct14
Nov15
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland2
2Cornwall England2
3Argyll and Bute Scotland2
4Devon England1
5Aberdeenshire Scotland1
6Scottish Borders Scotland1
7Brighton and Hove England1
52 England53 Scotland19 Wales18 Northern Ireland5 Isle of Man

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 7 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,100
Peak month
March
Counties with records
7
Scientific name
Macropodia tenuirostris
Group
Crustaceans
NBN Atlas records since 2000
158
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Family
Inachidae
Genus
Macropodia
Name with authority
Macropodia tenuirostris (Leach, 1814)
Described
1814
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2282333 · GBIF 5178695