#4752 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Bush snail
🇳🇱 Gewone struikslak ·Fruticicola fruticum
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Данилова Валерия · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © wp-polzin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Matt Blango · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © markus lilje · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Nikita Sevastianov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Nataël Adam · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © François-Xavier Taxil · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Fruticicola fruticum is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bradybaenidae.
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 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 14,338 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bush snail
- Nederlands
- Gewone struikslak
- scientific name
- Fruticicola fruticum
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Camaenidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 8,895
- sightings worldwide
- 14,338
- GBIF records in NL
- 678
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Camaenidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 101020, Wikidata Q908799, GBIF 5858882, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.