#4668 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Common Chrysalis-Snail
🇳🇱 Genaveld tonnetje ·Lauria cylindracea
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © commoncopper · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jérémie Février · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Javier · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Jeremy Gatten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Christophe Quintin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Christophe Quintin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Saryu Mae 前 朝琉 · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Charcos Companhia · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Lauria cylindracea , common name "the common chrysalis snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lauriidae.
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
- Spotted 24 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,873 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Emanuel Mendes da Costa in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Chrysalis-Snail
- Nederlands
- Genaveld tonnetje
- scientific name
- Lauria cylindracea
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Lauriidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 24
- sightings in Europe
- 1,780
- sightings worldwide
- 2,873
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,546
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Emanuel Mendes da Costa
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 222759, Wikidata Q1501279, GBIF 5190459, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.