#4612 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Spanish Slug

🇳🇱 Spaanse wegslak ·Arion vulgaris

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

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

1. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
2. © kickpuncher · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
4. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
6. Noord-Holland, NL:© tricky_vicky · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Arnhem South, Arnhem, Netherlands:© Miaow miaow · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 3076 RE Rotterdam, Nederland:© Ronald Kranenburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Gildenlaan, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, NL:© Nathan Veenstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Rheden, Gelderland, NL:© LuukKleisterlee · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Spanish slug , also known by its scientific name Arion vulgaris , more commonly known in English-speaking countries under the incorrectly applied Latin name Arion lusitanicus , is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

base stats

NL sightings 100iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,132iNaturalist 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 100 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #44 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
27,132 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Alfred Moquin-Tandon in 1855 (171 years ago).
Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.