Species Detail - Golden Carpet Shell (Polititapes aureus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Porcupine Marine Natural History Society Records".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Polititapes aureus
Golden Carpet Shell
NHMSYS0021054890
RecommendedWell-formed
Paphia aurea , Paphia aurea (Gmelin, 1791), Tapes (Tapes) aureus (Gmelin, 1791), Tapes aureus (Gmelin, 1791), Venerupis aurea (Gmelin, 1791)
N/A
poaur
(Gmelin, 1791)
Mollusc
Species
13
5
5
07/04/1997
11/09/2018
31 January (recorded in 2022)
20 December (recorded in 2019)
Porcupine Marine Natural History Society, Porcupine Marine Natural History Society Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Golden Carpet Shell (Polititapes aureus), accessed 13 June 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/313/Species/287426>