#4570 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Garden Snail

🇳🇱 Segrijnslak ·Cornu aspersum

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © stanze · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © rosslen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Rand Workman · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Ron Greer · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Thomas Everest · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cornu aspersum , known by the common name garden snail , is a species of land snail. As such it is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, which includes some of the most commonly familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial molluscs, this species may well be the most widely known. In English texts it was classified under the name Helix aspersa for over two centuries, but the prevailing classification now places it in the genus...

base stats

NL sightings 2,126iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 154,601iNaturalist 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 2,126 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #2 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
154,601 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.