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Water hog lice/slaters

Asellus aquaticus

3,172Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
89Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan19
Feb27
Mar333
Apr550
May423
Jun219
Jul222
Aug134
Sep595
Oct400
Nov164
Dec20

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Powys Wales191
2Isle of Anglesey Wales191
3Pembrokeshire Wales178
4Monmouthshire Wales125
5Wrexham Wales119
6Carmarthenshire Wales108
7Gwynedd Wales105
8Cambridgeshire England97
9Denbighshire Wales90
10Worcestershire England79
11Ceredigion Wales71
12Swansea Wales68
13Norfolk England67
14Conwy Wales60
15Kent England56
814 England261 Scotland1,915 Wales37 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 89 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,172
Peak month
September
Counties with records
89
Scientific name
Asellus aquaticus
Group
Crustaceans
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Isopoda
Family
Asellidae
Genus
Asellus
Name with authority
Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q586336 · GBIF 2206247