#4616 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Vineyard Snail

🇳🇱 Bolle duinslak ·Cernuella virgata

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Cathy Powers · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
4. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
5. © Cathy Powers · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Frank Sengpiel · CC BY 4.0
8. © Stergios Vasilis · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © Paulo Martins · CC BY-SA 4.0
10. © Tamsin Carlisle · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Cernuella virgata , also known as Helicella virgata , common name, the "vineyard snail", is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

base stats

NL sightings 91iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,391iNaturalist 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 91 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #47 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
6,391 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Emanuel Mendes da Costa in 1778 (248 years ago).