Species Detail - Lesser Spotted Dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "iNaturalist Marine Species Records for Ireland".

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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Scyliorhinus canicula
Lesser Spotted Dogfish
NBNSYS0000177892 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
sccan
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Cartilagenous fish (Chondrichthyes)
Species
32
26
20
23/05/2008
03/01/2022
1 January (recorded in 2011)
31 December (recorded in 1988)
iNaturalist, iNaturalist Marine Species Records for Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Lesser Spotted Dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/387/Species/15574

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)