#4600 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

White-lipped Snail

🇳🇱 Witgerande tuinslak ·Cepaea hortensis

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

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what is it?

The white-lipped snail or garden banded snail , scientific name Cepaea hortensis , is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. It is a close relative of the Grove Snail.

base stats

NL sightings 134iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 24,053iNaturalist 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 134 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #32 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
24,053 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.