Species Detail - Green Shore Crab (Carcinus maenas) - 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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Carcinus maenas
Green Shore Crab
NBNSYS0000174367 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
camae
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Crustacean
Species
105
47
28
14/10/2006
16/11/2021
1 January (recorded in 1985)
30 December (recorded in 2018)
iNaturalist, iNaturalist Marine Species Records for Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Green Shore Crab (Carcinus maenas), accessed 20 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/387/Species/17773

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)