#4593 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Large Necklace Shell
🇳🇱 Grote tepelhoren ·Euspira catena
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Zuid-Holland, Nederland
📍 Niederlande
📍 Wassenaar, NL-ZH, NL
📍 Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 Maasvlakte 2, Maasvlakte, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pascal GIRARD · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Vincent VALLI · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Butor and Gogol · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Zuid-Holland, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Niederlande:© Tristan Haab · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Wassenaar, NL-ZH, NL:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Maasvlakte 2, Maasvlakte, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Euspira catena , previously known as Natica catena , common name the large necklace shell , is a medium-sized species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
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 191 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #25 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
- 1,645 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Emanuel Mendes da Costa in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Large Necklace Shell
- Nederlands
- Grote tepelhoren
- scientific name
- Euspira catena
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Littorinimorpha
- family
- Naticidae
- sightings in NL
- 191
- sightings in Europe
- 1,204
- sightings worldwide
- 1,645
- GBIF records in NL
- 53,063
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Emanuel Mendes da Costa
relatives· Naticidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 482344, Wikidata Q368815, GBIF 5192503, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.