#4724 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Rocky Aeolid
🇳🇱 Noordelijke knuppelslak ·Eubranchulus rupium
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Appledore Island, Kittery, ME, US
📍 Quadra Island
📍 New Harbor, Bristol, ME, USA
📍 Three Tree Point, Burien, WA 98166, USA
📍 Washington, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Tine Kinn Kvamme · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Jørn Ari · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Poul Erik Rasmussen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Appledore Island, Kittery, ME, US:© juliaeden · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Quadra Island:© Hakai Institute · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. New Harbor, Bristol, ME, USA:© Jeff Goddard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Three Tree Point, Burien, WA 98166, USA:© aserafin97 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Washington, US:© Luan Roberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Eubranchulus rupium , the green balloon aeolid , is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.
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 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,591 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Rocky Aeolid
- Nederlands
- Noordelijke knuppelslak
- scientific name
- Eubranchulus rupium
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Eubranchidae
- sightings in NL
- 8
- sightings in Europe
- 167
- sightings worldwide
- 1,591
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Eubranchidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1668630, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.