#4682 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Striped Greenhouse Slug

🇳🇱 Spaanse aardslak ·Ambigolimax valentianus

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Yan Cai · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Thomas Everest · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. Ebina, Kanagawa, JP:© gg_copen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Osorno, Los Lagos, Chile:© jperezsch · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. W Folsom St, Anaheim, CA, US:© squidney325 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Волгоградская обл., Россия, 403873:© Oleg Sarkisov · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Spartanburg County, SC, USA:© Keith.G.sr · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Central LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA:© maiz · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Sugikubokita 4-Chōme, Ebina, Kanagawa, JP:© gg_copen · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Los Angeles County, US-CA, US:© maiz · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Ambigolimax valentianus (previously known as Lehmannia valentiana ) is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae.

base stats

NL sightings 18iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,338iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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 18 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
9,338 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac in 1822 (204 years ago).