Species Detail - Marbled Swimming Crab (Liocarcinus marmoreus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Water Framework Directive (WFD) Benthos Monitoring (Ireland) 2012 - ongoing".

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
Liocarcinus marmoreus
Marbled Swimming Crab
NBNSYS0000176168 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
limar
(Leach, 1814)
Crustacean
Species
8
7
6
11/02/2016
20/06/2024
21 January (recorded in 2022)
23 September (recorded in 2020)
Marine Institute, Water Framework Directive (WFD) Benthos Monitoring (Ireland) 2012 - ongoing, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Marbled Swimming Crab (Liocarcinus marmoreus), accessed 15 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/440/Species/18007

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)