Species Detail - Dog Whelk (Nucella lapillus) - 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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Nucella lapillus
Dog Whelk
NBNSYS0000188539 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
nulap
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Mollusc
Species
2
2
2
25/08/2006
31/10/2017
1 January (recorded in 1985)
27 December (recorded in 2020)
Geoff Oliver and Eddie McCormack, Irish Lagoon Surveys, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Dog Whelk (Nucella lapillus), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/303/Species/122326

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)