#4576 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Girdled Snail

🇳🇱 Gekielde loofslak ·Hygromia cinctella

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

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

1. © Joe Holt · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Walter Welss · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
4. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Rivierenwijk, Utrecht, Netherlands:© severinus · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Gelderland, NL:© invasive_nerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 1325 Almere, Nederland:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. Nieuw Wulven, Bunnik, Netherlands:© severinus · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Valkenburg, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Hygromia cinctella , known commonly as the girdled snail , is a small European species of air-breathing land snail, native to the Mediterranean region, that belongs to the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Hygromiidae.

base stats

NL sightings 454iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 13,033iNaturalist 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

Spotted 454 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #8 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
13,033 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jacques Draparnaud in 1801 (225 years ago).
Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.