Species Detail - Needle Whelk (Bittium reticulatum) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Irish Lagoon Surveys".

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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Bittium reticulatum
Needle Whelk
NBNSYS0000174135 RecommendedUnverified
N/A
biret
(da Costa, 1778)
Mollusc
Species
4
3
3
08/09/1996
31/10/2017
4 January (recorded in 2024)
20 December (recorded in 2019)
Geoff Oliver and Eddie McCormack, Irish Lagoon Surveys, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Needle Whelk (Bittium reticulatum), accessed 24 December 2025, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/303/Species/120391

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)