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#4749 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Meadow Slug

🇳🇱 Kleine akkerslak ·Deroceras laeve

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
Meadow Slug, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Richard Ong · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Deroceras laeve , the marsh slug , is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Agriolimacidae.

base stats

  • NL sightings 3iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 14,040iNaturalist 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 3 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 14,040 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Meadow Slug
Nederlands
Kleine akkerslak
scientific name
Deroceras laeve
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Agriolimacidae
sightings in NL
3
sightings in Europe
102
sightings worldwide
14,040
GBIF records in NL
436
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller

relatives· Agriolimacidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 209624, Wikidata Q388218, GBIF 5781358, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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