Species Detail - Broad-clawed Porcelain Crab (Porcellana platycheles) - 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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Porcellana platycheles
Broad-clawed Porcelain Crab
NBNSYS0000177450 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
popla
(Pennant, 1777)
Crustacean
Species
2
2
2
02/09/2014
19/10/2016
5 January (recorded in 2025)
26 December (recorded in 2023)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, General Biodiversity Records from Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Broad-clawed Porcelain Crab (Porcellana platycheles), accessed 16 August 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/7/Species/18161>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)