#4754 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Pelican's-foot
🇳🇱 Pelikaansvoet ·Aporrhais pespelecani
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
📍 Liguria, Italia
📍 Vlore
📍 Aalbæk Strand, 9982 Ålbæk, Danmark
📍 Venedig, Italien
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Dean Zagorac · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Dean Zagorac · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © luismartinezartola · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer:© faerthen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Liguria, Italia:© Roberto Ghiglia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Vlore:© Eridan Xharahi · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Aalbæk Strand, 9982 Ålbæk, Danmark:© Mona Phipps · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Venedig, Italien:© bianca_t · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Aporrhais pespelecani , common name the "pelican's foot" (or more precisely "common pelican's foot" to distinguish it from congeners), is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aporrhaidae.
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 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,797 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pelican's-foot
- Nederlands
- Pelikaansvoet
- scientific name
- Aporrhais pespelecani
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Littorinimorpha
- family
- Aporrhaidae
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 1,646
- sightings worldwide
- 1,797
- GBIF records in NL
- 617
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 59399, Wikidata Q2068027, GBIF 4361146, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.