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#4709 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Wrinkled Door Snail

🇳🇱 Kleine clausilia ·Clausilia rugosa

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
Wrinkled Door Snail, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Clausilia rugosa is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Clausiliidae.

base stats

  • NL sightings 11iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 710iNaturalist 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 11 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 710 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Jacques Draparnaud in 1801 (225 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Wrinkled Door Snail
Nederlands
Kleine clausilia
scientific name
Clausilia rugosa
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Clausiliidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
11
sightings in Europe
403
sightings worldwide
710
GBIF records in NL
142
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1801 by Jacques Draparnaud

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

relatives· Clausiliidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 545126, Wikidata Q5129546, GBIF 4571043, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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