#4799 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Orange-clubbed Sea Slug
🇳🇱 Wrattige mosdierslak ·Limacia clavigera
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Tine Kinn Kvamme · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Emil B · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Jørn Ari · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Limacia clavigera , sometimes known by the common name orange-clubbed sea slug , is a sea slug, a species of dorid nudibranch. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.
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.
- 1,598 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Orange-clubbed Sea Slug
- Nederlands
- Wrattige mosdierslak
- scientific name
- Limacia clavigera
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Polyceridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,521
- sightings worldwide
- 1,598
- GBIF records in NL
- 76
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Polyceridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 467344, Wikidata Q3200433, GBIF 5190033, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.