#4809 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Button's Banana Slug
Ariolimax buttoni
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
📍 Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, CA, US
📍 Fort Bragg, CA, US
📍 Sonoma County, CA, USA
📍 Sonoma County, CA, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sean Patrick Parnell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jennifer Linde · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Lorri G. · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Di · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Liam O'Brien · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Asa Spade · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, CA, US:© Jennifer Linde · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Fort Bragg, CA, US:© bowserbee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Sonoma County, CA, USA:© Sadie Hickey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Sonoma County, CA, USA:© mirone · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Ariolimax buttoni is a species of banana slug native to the West Coast of the United States. The species has a yellowish-tan hue that is similar to a banana and can be either spotted or unspotted. These slugs tend to be more sedentary but will migrate to find food or reproduce.
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.
- 17,370 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Button's Banana Slug
- scientific name
- Ariolimax buttoni
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Ariolimacidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 17,370
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Ariolimacidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 214185, Wikidata Q49446828, GBIF 10047389, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.