Species Detail - Leathery Sea Squirt (Styela clava) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "National Invasive Species Database".

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

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Styela clava
Leathery Sea Squirt
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Invasive Species: Invasive Species || Invasive Species: Invasive Species >> High Impact Invasive Species || Invasive Species: Invasive Species >> Regulation S.I. 477 (Ireland)
stcla
Herdman, 1881
tunicate (Urochordata)
Species
25
19
15
01/01/1971
31/12/2022
3 January (recorded in 2017)
16 December (recorded in 2024)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, National Invasive Species Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Leathery Sea Squirt (Styela clava), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/397/Species/134386>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)