#4652 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Thin Bubble-shell
🇳🇱 Bubbeltje ·Akera bullata
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © nevermetsnails · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © victoriacabaleiro · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Akera bullata is a species of sea snail (or sea slug), a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Akeridae, a family that is related to the sea hares. This species is the only European representative of the genus Akera .
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 32 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 146 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Thin Bubble-shell
- Nederlands
- Bubbeltje
- scientific name
- Akera bullata
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Aplysiida
- family
- Akeridae
- sightings in NL
- 32
- sightings in Europe
- 140
- sightings worldwide
- 146
- GBIF records in NL
- 30
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 482656, Wikidata Q3171204, GBIF 2297306, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.