Species Detail - Sand Gaper (Mya arenaria) - 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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Mya arenaria
Sand Gaper
NHMSYS0021054648 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
myare
Linnaeus, 1758
Mollusc
Species
2
2
2
17/09/1994
21/04/2014
4 January (recorded in 2022)
30 December (recorded in 2019)
iNaturalist, iNaturalist Marine Species Records for Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Sand Gaper (Mya arenaria), accessed 13 June 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/387/Species/287184>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)