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Velvet Swimming Crab

Necora puber

22,671Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
48Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan197
Feb510
Mar1,151
Apr1,030
May2,011
Jun3,364
Jul4,362
Aug4,053
Sep4,221
Oct1,081
Nov366
Dec146

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England366
2Argyll and Bute Scotland217
3Pembrokeshire Wales168
4Highland Scotland167
5Torbay England151
6Devon England141
7Plymouth England106
8Gwynedd Wales101
9Scottish Borders Scotland95
10Ards and North Down Northern Ireland93
11Isle of Anglesey Wales75
12Norfolk England68
13Dorset England63
14Shetland Islands —55
15Kent England48
7,623 England3,636 Scotland2,534 Wales1,155 Northern Ireland2 Isle of Man

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 48 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
22,671
Peak month
July
Counties with records
48
Scientific name
Necora puber
Group
Crustaceans
NBN Atlas records since 2000
18,116
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Family
Polybiidae
Genus
Necora
Name with authority
Necora puber (Linnaeus, 1767)
Described
1767
Contributing datasets
74

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q853487 · GBIF 9736038