#4828 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Globular Drop Snail
Helicina orbiculata
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Bryan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Sam Kieschnick · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © 106584015630019574849 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Sam Kieschnick · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Roger Shaw · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 10. © Curtis Eckerman · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Helicina orbiculata , also known as Helicina (Oligyra) orbiculata and as Oligyra orbiculata , is a species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.
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.
- 8,481 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1818 (208 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Globular Drop Snail
- scientific name
- Helicina orbiculata
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Cycloneritida
- family
- Helicinidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 8,481
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1818 by Thomas Say
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 126257, Wikidata Q5705003, GBIF 8789503, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.