#4734 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Heath Snail

🇳🇱 Heideslak ·Helicella itala

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Helicella itala is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies. The common Heath snail is a West Palearctic species found in the British Isles, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and Poland. It is now also widely distributed in Australia (first found in Australia in 1891). In English this is known as the Heath snail .

base stats

NL sightings 6iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,552iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).