#4775 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Green Garden Snail

Cantareus apertus

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © frogfan · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.876.36472 · CC BY 4.0
6. © Claude & Amandine EVANNO · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. S Pacific St, San Marcos, CA, US:© brymalplants · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Berkeley, CA 94710, USA:© Julia Betz · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. McLaughlin Eastshore State Park, Richmond, CA, US:© Dutza K. · CC BY 4.0
10. Syracuse, Sicily, IT:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

Helix aperta , also known as Cantareus apertus , and commonly known as the green garden snail , is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,924iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,924 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Ignaz von Born in 1778 (248 years ago).