#4781 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Green Ormer
🇳🇱 Gewoon zee-oor ·Haliotis tuberculata
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what is it?
The green ormer ( Haliotis tuberculata ) is a northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean species of sea snail, a coastal marine gastropod mollusc in the family Haliotidae, the abalones or ormer 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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,365 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Green Ormer
- Nederlands
- Gewoon zee-oor
- scientific name
- Haliotis tuberculata
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Lepetellida
- family
- Haliotidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 2,844
- sightings worldwide
- 3,365
- GBIF records in NL
- 9
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 210285, Wikidata Q1552190, GBIF 2293076, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.