Species Detail - Colonial Sea Squirt (Perophora japonica) - 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).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Perophora japonica
Colonial Sea Squirt
NBNSYS0000185515 RecommendedWell-formed
Invasive Species: Regulation S.I. 477/2011 (Ireland) || Invasive Species: Regulation S.I. 374/2024 (Ireland)
pejap
Oka, 1927
Tunicate (Urochordata)
Species
6
6
6
01/01/2018
31/12/2022
29 June (recorded in 2025)
29 June (recorded in 2025)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, National Invasive Species Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Colonial Sea Squirt (Perophora japonica), accessed 08 April 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/397/Species/134467

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)