#4817 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Gumboot Chiton
🇳🇱 Reuzenkeverslak ·Cryptochiton stelleri
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
4 lb). It is found along the shores of the northern Pacific Ocean from Central California to Alaska, across the Aleutian Islands to the Kamchatka Peninsula and south to Japan. It inhabits the lower intertidal and subtidal zones of rocky coastlines.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 11,086 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Alexander von Middendorff in 1847 (179 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Gumboot Chiton
- Nederlands
- Reuzenkeverslak
- scientific name
- Cryptochiton stelleri
- class
- Polyplacophora
- order
- Chitonida
- family
- Mopaliidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 11,086
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1847 by Alexander von Middendorff
relatives· Mopaliidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49053, Wikidata Q1861188, GBIF 5193725, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.