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Slippery Moss Snail

Cochlicopa lubrica

4,110Records since 2000
MayPeak month
100Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan86
Feb87
Mar276
Apr437
May553
Jun474
Jul549
Aug484
Sep543
Oct353
Nov92
Dec119

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England926
2Gloucestershire England130
3East Lothian Scotland121
4East Riding of Yorkshire England115
5Highland Scotland102
6Cambridgeshire England94
7Norfolk England71
8City of Edinburgh Scotland71
9Worcestershire England67
10Carmarthenshire Wales60
11Swansea Wales59
12Scottish Borders Scotland58
13Leeds England55
14Argyll and Bute Scotland52
15Cornwall England48
2,922 England757 Scotland330 Wales38 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 100 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,110
Peak month
May
Counties with records
100
Scientific name
Cochlicopa lubrica
Group
Molluscs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Cochlicopidae
Genus
Cochlicopa
Name with authority
Cochlicopa lubrica (O.F.Müller, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1058315 · GBIF 2295977