Species Detail - Broad-clawed Porcelain Crab (Porcellana platycheles) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Marine sites, habitats and species data collected during the BioMar survey of Ireland.".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Porcellana platycheles
Broad-clawed Porcelain Crab
NBNSYS0000177450 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
popla
(Pennant, 1777)
Crustacean
Species
100
55
30
31/05/1993
14/10/1996
5 January (recorded in 2025)
26 December (recorded in 2023)
Trinity College, Marine sites, habitats and species data collected during the BioMar survey of Ireland., National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Broad-clawed Porcelain Crab (Porcellana platycheles), accessed 19 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/258/Species/18161>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)