#4751 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Chocolate-band Snail

🇳🇱 Pastaslak ·Eobania vermiculata

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © David Hoare · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Andra Temruk · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Claude & Amandine EVANNO · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Claude & Amandine EVANNO · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Naval Base Ventura County - Point Mugu, Oxnard, CA, US:© william_hoyer · CC BY 4.0
8. Herzegovina-Neretva, BA-BF, BA:© Fernando Mateos-González · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Antalya, Türkiye:© uzel · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Santander, Cantabria, España:© Diego González Dopico · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Eobania vermiculata also known as Helix vermiculata , common name the "chocolate-band snail" is a species of large, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails or typical snails.

base stats

NL sightings 2iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 15,781iNaturalist 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).