#4794 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Elysia timida
Elysia timida
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Elysia timida is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk.
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.
- 2,026 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Antoine Risso in 1818 (208 years ago).
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Elysia timida
- class
- Gastropoda
- family
- Plakobranchidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,810
- sightings worldwide
- 2,026
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1818 by Antoine Risso
relatives· Plakobranchidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 481506, Wikidata Q3015747, GBIF 5724662, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.