Species Detail - Common Spider Crab (Maja brachydactyla) - 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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Maja brachydactyla
Common Spider Crab
NHMSYS0020475548 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
mabra
Balss, 1922
Crustacean
Species
1
1
1
24/07/2016
24/07/2016
1 January (recorded in 2016)
30 December (recorded in 2019)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, General Biodiversity Records from Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Spider Crab (Maja brachydactyla), accessed 12 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/7/Species/23030>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)