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#4715 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Plaited Door-snail

🇳🇱 Gladde clausilia ·Cochlodina laminata

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
Plaited Door-snail, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Mykola Borysenko · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Cochlodina laminata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

base stats

  • NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 6,575iNaturalist 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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 6,575 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by George Montagu in 1803 (223 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Plaited Door-snail
Nederlands
Gladde clausilia
scientific name
Cochlodina laminata
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Clausiliidae
sightings in NL
9
sightings in Europe
4,787
sightings worldwide
6,575
GBIF records in NL
1,228
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1803 by George Montagu

relatives· Clausiliidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 84781, Wikidata Q570866, GBIF 4568872, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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