#4788 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Spotted Seahare
🇳🇱 Zeehaas ·Aplysia punctata
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Aplysia punctata is a species of sea slug, a sea hare, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares. 9 in) and is found in the northeast Atlantic, ranging from Greenland and Norway to the Mediterranean Sea.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,837 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Georges Cuvier in 1803 (223 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Spotted Seahare
- Nederlands
- Zeehaas
- scientific name
- Aplysia punctata
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Aplysiida
- family
- Aplysiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 2,187
- sightings worldwide
- 2,837
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1803 by Georges Cuvier
relatives· Aplysiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 57663, Wikidata Q520464, GBIF 5191252, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.