#4706 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Spiked Awlsnail
Allopeas clavulinum
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Ko‘olau Forest Reserve, Haiku, HI, US
📍 Seaham St, Holmesville, NSW, AU
📍 杭州市西湖区西溪谷
📍 Hornsby - North, AU-NS, AU
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Coffs Harbour NSW, Australia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jennifer Wright · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Dash Huang · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Nick Lambert · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © kbkash · CC0
- 5. Ko‘olau Forest Reserve, Haiku, HI, US:© Michael A. Voeltz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Seaham St, Holmesville, NSW, AU:© tr333s · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 杭州市西湖区西溪谷:© 小铖/Smalltown · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Hornsby - North, AU-NS, AU:© pokeystuff · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Coffs Harbour NSW, Australia:© Nick Lambert · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
Allopeas clavulinum , common name the spike awlsnail , is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae. This species is also known as Lamellaxis clavulinus .
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 12 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 373 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Spiked Awlsnail
- scientific name
- Allopeas clavulinum
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Achatinidae
- sightings in NL
- 12
- sightings in Europe
- 12
- sightings worldwide
- 373
- GBIF records in NL
- 46
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Achatinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 122397, Wikidata Q3728680, GBIF 2294131, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.