#4659 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Alder's Necklace Shell
🇳🇱 Glanzende tepelhoren ·Euspira nitida
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Wassenaar, Nederland
📍 's-Gravenhage, NL-ZH, NL
📍 Zuid-Holland, Nederland
📍 Monster, NL-ZH, NL
📍 Maasvlakte 2, Maasvlakte, Nederland
📍 Paesi Bassi
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Erik Veldhuis · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Andy Cowley · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. Wassenaar, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 's-Gravenhage, NL-ZH, NL:© Gerrit Öhm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Zuid-Holland, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Monster, NL-ZH, NL:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Maasvlakte 2, Maasvlakte, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Paesi Bassi:© Jeroen Van Akkeren · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Euspira nitida (common name : Common necklace shell) is a species of 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 29 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 320 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Alder's Necklace Shell
- Nederlands
- Glanzende tepelhoren
- scientific name
- Euspira nitida
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Littorinimorpha
- family
- Naticidae
- sightings in NL
- 29
- sightings in Europe
- 194
- sightings worldwide
- 320
- GBIF records in NL
- 8,440
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Naticidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1075737, Wikidata Q61681142, GBIF 5725465, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.