#4778 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Lapidary Snail

🇳🇱 Steenbikker ·Helicigona lapicida

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jesse Rorabaugh · CC0
2. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © bianca_t · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
10. © Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

Helicigona lapicida is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,532iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,532 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).