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#4569 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Brown-lipped Snail

🇳🇱 Zwartgerande tuinslak ·Cepaea nemoralis

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Gary Yankech · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  2. 2. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. 3. © Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. 5. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. 6. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. © AnneTanne · CC BY-NC 4.0
Brown-lipped Snail, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Gary Yankech · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The grove snail or brown-lipped snail ( Cepaea nemoralis ) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc. It is one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, and has been introduced to North America.

base stats

  • NL sightings 2,138iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 110,134iNaturalist 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 2,138 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #1 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
  • 110,134 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Brown-lipped Snail
Nederlands
Zwartgerande tuinslak
scientific name
Cepaea nemoralis
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Helicidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
2,138
sightings in Europe
60,573
sightings worldwide
110,134
GBIF records in NL
76,057
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Helicidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 48586, Wikidata Q114893, GBIF 2294280, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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