Species Detail - Common Periwinkle (Littorina littorea) - 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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Littorina littorea
Common Periwinkle
NBNSYS0000176211 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
lilit
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Mollusc
Species
24
18
14
08/09/1996
31/10/2017
1 January (recorded in 1985)
31 December (recorded in 2020)
Geoff Oliver and Eddie McCormack, Irish Lagoon Surveys, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Periwinkle (Littorina littorea), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/303/Species/120663

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)