#4638 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Glossy Pillar
🇳🇱 Glanzende agaathoren ·Cochlicopa lubrica
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 6702 Wageningen, Nederland
📍 9742 CZ Groningen, Netherlands
📍 Leidschenveen-Ypenburg, Den Haag, Nederland
📍 4307 Oosterland, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © commoncopper · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Even Dankowicz · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Matthew Brown · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Mardon Erbland · CC0
- 5. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. 6702 Wageningen, Nederland:© titusvdberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 9742 CZ Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Leidschenveen-Ypenburg, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 4307 Oosterland, Netherlands:© Jan Meerman · CC BY-NC 4.0
base stats
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 44 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 6,154 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Glossy Pillar
- Nederlands
- Glanzende agaathoren
- scientific name
- Cochlicopa lubrica
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Cochlicopidae
- sightings in NL
- 44
- sightings in Europe
- 1,027
- sightings worldwide
- 6,154
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,466
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 217274, Wikidata Q1058315, GBIF 2295977, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.