Species Detail - Edible crab (Cancer pagurus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "General Biodiversity Records from 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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Cancer pagurus
Edible crab
NBNSYS0000174336 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
capag
Linnaeus, 1758
Crustacean
Species
3
3
3
09/08/1975
24/07/2016
1 January (recorded in 1985)
30 December (recorded in 2018)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, General Biodiversity Records from Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Edible crab (Cancer pagurus), accessed 14 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/7/Species/17760>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)