#4833 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Slender Banana Slug
Ariolimax dolichophallus
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
📍 Santa Cruz County, CA, USA
📍 The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park, Aptos, CA, US
📍 Rachel Carson College Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, US
📍 Heller Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, US
📍 Felton, CA, US
📍 Aptos Creek Rd, Aptos, CA, US
📍 Pogonip, Santa Cruz, CA, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Linda Tanner · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Dougal Townsend · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Merav Vonshak · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Santa Cruz County, CA, USA:© Dwight Baker · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park, Aptos, CA, US:© jenniferbalboni · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Rachel Carson College Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, US:© Ryan Donnelly · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Heller Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, US:© Ariel R. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Felton, CA, US:© Angela Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Aptos Creek Rd, Aptos, CA, US:© Hannah Cunningham · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Pogonip, Santa Cruz, CA, US:© J. Bagratuni · CC BY-NC 4.0
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.
- 7,675 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Albert Raymond Mead in 1943 (83 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Slender Banana Slug
- scientific name
- Ariolimax dolichophallus
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Ariolimacidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,675
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1943 by Albert Raymond Mead
relatives· Ariolimacidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 48214, Wikidata Q3691759, GBIF 2294089. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.