Species Detail - Least Chink Shell (Lacuna parva) - 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).
Live Map
Lacuna parva
Least Chink Shell
NBNSYS0000175976 RecommendedUnverified
N/A
lapar
(da Costa, 1778)
Mollusc
Species
8
5
4
27/08/2006
23/08/2013
8 April (recorded in 1997)
19 October (recorded in 2012)
Seasearch, SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Least Chink Shell (Lacuna parva), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/158/Species/120629

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)