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#4693 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Maritime Garden Snail

🇳🇱 Griekse duinslak ·Cernuella cisalpina

DDdata deficient 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
Maritime Garden Snail, photo 1 of 10
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what is it?

Cernuella cisalpina , sometimes known as the "maritime gardensnail", is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.

base stats

  • NL sightings 15iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 842iNaturalist observations

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 15 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 842 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Emil Adolf Rossmässler in 1837 (189 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Maritime Garden Snail
Nederlands
Griekse duinslak
scientific name
Cernuella cisalpina
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Geomitridae
IUCN Red List
DD · data deficient
sightings in NL
15
sightings in Europe
346
sightings worldwide
842
GBIF records in NL
614
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1837 by Emil Adolf Rossmässler

IUCN in Dutch: onvoldoende gegevens. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Geomitridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 97085, Wikidata Q5064565, GBIF 4565140, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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