Species Detail - Saddle Oyster (Anomia ephippium) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Sponges of Rathlin Island".

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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Anomia ephippium
Saddle Oyster
NBNSYS0000173830 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
aneph
Linnaeus, 1758
Mollusc
Species
1
1
1
03/05/1985
03/05/1985
12 January (recorded in 2020)
29 December (recorded in 2022)
Ulster Museum, Sponges of Rathlin Island, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Saddle Oyster (Anomia ephippium), accessed 20 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/48/Species/120362

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)