Species Detail - Common whelk (Buccinum undatum) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Buccinum undatum
Common whelk
NBNSYS0000174225 RecommendedUnverified
N/A
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Linnaeus, 1758
Mollusc
Species
141
39
28
29/11/2003
13/06/2021
1 January (recorded in 2016)
30 December (recorded in 2019)
Seasearch, SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common whelk (Buccinum undatum), accessed 15 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/158/Species/120398>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)