Species Detail - Edible crab (Cancer pagurus) - 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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Cancer pagurus
Edible crab
NBNSYS0000174336 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
capag
Linnaeus, 1758
Crustacean
Species
2
2
2
25/09/1998
31/10/2016
1 January (recorded in 1985)
30 December (recorded in 2018)
Geoff Oliver and Eddie McCormack, Irish Lagoon Surveys, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Edible crab (Cancer pagurus), accessed 16 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/303/Species/17760>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)