#4686 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Hairy Spiny Dorid
🇳🇱 Egelslak ·Acanthodoris pilosa
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Huntington Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
📍 24229 Schwedeneck, Deutschland
📍 24229 Schwedeneck, Deutschland
📍 Kings County, NS, Canada
📍 Cape Elizabeth, ME, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Minette Layne from Seattle, Washington, USA · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Jørn Ari · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Jeff Goddard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Huntington Point, Nova Scotia, Canada:© ipat · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. 24229 Schwedeneck, Deutschland:© Bianca Bahlert · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 24229 Schwedeneck, Deutschland:© Bianca Bahlert · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Kings County, NS, Canada:© ipat · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. Cape Elizabeth, ME, USA:© Jeff Goddard · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Acanthodoris pilosa is a species of sea slugs, dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Onchidorididae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 17 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 829 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Hairy Spiny Dorid
- Nederlands
- Egelslak
- scientific name
- Acanthodoris pilosa
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Acanthodorididae
- sightings in NL
- 17
- sightings in Europe
- 557
- sightings worldwide
- 829
- GBIF records in NL
- 265
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47466, Wikidata Q624354, GBIF 2292107, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.