#4748 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Asian Tramp Snail
Bradybaena similaris
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Rita Wright · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Natasha Taylor · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Simon Wong · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Lachlan Copeland · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Natasha Taylor · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Federico Figueroa Cabezas · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © davepuff · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Sunnetchan · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © Yan Cai · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Bradybaena similaris , common name the Asian trampsnail , is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae. It earned the common name based on its origins, and its habit of roosting on freight containers. This habit means that this may be one of the most broadly-distributed species of terrestrial snail in the world.
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 3 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 23,797 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac in 1821 (205 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Asian Tramp Snail
- scientific name
- Bradybaena similaris
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Camaenidae
- sightings in NL
- 3
- sightings in Europe
- 3
- sightings worldwide
- 23,797
- GBIF records in NL
- 146
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1821 by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac
relatives· Camaenidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 215409, Wikidata Q3076797, GBIF 2297154, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.