#4825 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Tropical Leatherleaf Slug
🇳🇱 Tropical leatherleaf ·Laevicaulis alte
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Masatoshi Sone · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Yan Cai · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Anil Kumar Verma · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ben Keen · CC0
- 5. © Robert Taylor · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © i_c_riddell · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Sunnetchan · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © 藜梓柠 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The tropical leatherleaf , scientific name Laevicaulis alte , is a species of tropical land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.
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.
- 8,663 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac in 1822 (204 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Tropical Leatherleaf Slug
- Nederlands
- Tropical leatherleaf
- scientific name
- Laevicaulis alte
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Systellommatophora
- family
- Veronicellidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 8,663
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1822 by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 85102, Wikidata Q3170495, GBIF 2293764, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.