#4756 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Turkish Snail

🇳🇱 Gebandeerde wijngaardslak ·Helix lucorum

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Bjerrum · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Alexis Lours · CC BY 4.0
3. © Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Богданович Светлана · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jip Bosch · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © simonetobaldo · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Kudaibergen Amirekul · CC BY-SA 4.0
8. © Roman Hural · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

Helix lucorum is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail or escargot, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

base stats

NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,140iNaturalist observations

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).