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Spotted Cowrie

Trivia monacha

1,740Records since 2000
MayPeak month
30Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan20
Feb13
Mar78
Apr148
May325
Jun287
Jul252
Aug249
Sep247
Oct75
Nov19
Dec13

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Pembrokeshire Wales49
2Highland Scotland25
3Orkney Islands Scotland21
4Ards and North Down Northern Ireland21
5Cornwall England20
6Devon England19
7Gwynedd Wales17
8Isles of Scilly England17
9Dorset England13
10Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland13
11Isle of Anglesey Wales13
12Argyll and Bute Scotland9
13North Ayrshire Scotland8
14Aberdeenshire Scotland7
15Torbay England7
643 England309 Scotland534 Wales139 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 30 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,740
Peak month
May
Counties with records
30
Scientific name
Trivia monacha
Group
Molluscs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,674
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Family
Triviidae
Genus
Trivia
Name with authority
Trivia monacha (da Costa, 1778)
Described
1778
Contributing datasets
42

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1377381 · GBIF 5192813