#4685 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Milky Slug
🇳🇱 Gevlekte akkerslak ·Deroceras reticulatum
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Deroceras reticulatum , common names the "grey field slug" and "grey garden slug", is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Agriolimacidae. This species is an important agricultural pest.
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 17 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 32,588 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Milky Slug
- Nederlands
- Gevlekte akkerslak
- scientific name
- Deroceras reticulatum
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Agriolimacidae
- sightings in NL
- 17
- sightings in Europe
- 1,420
- sightings worldwide
- 32,588
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,142
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Agriolimacidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 124432, Wikidata Q1502135, GBIF 5781277, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.