Species Detail - Edible crab (Cancer pagurus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Explore Your Shore".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

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

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map
Cancer pagurus
Edible crab
NBNSYS0000174336 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
capag
Linnaeus, 1758
Crustacean
Species
314
101
48
25/07/2003
20/02/2025
1 January (recorded in 1985)
30 December (recorded in 2018)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Explore Your Shore, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Edible crab (Cancer pagurus), accessed 16 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/305/Species/17760>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)