#4649 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Yellow Cellar Slug

🇳🇱 Lichte aardslak ·Limacus flavus

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

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

1. © Σάββας Ζαφειρίου (Savvas Zafeiriou) · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Richard Hasegawa · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Yan Cai · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Saryu Mae 前朝琉 · CC BY 4.0
5. © Phil Bendle · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © O. Nadir Ersan · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Phil Bendle · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Limax flavus (syn. Limacus flavus ), known commonly as the cellar slug , the yellow slug , or the tawny garden slug , is a medium to large species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae.

base stats

NL sightings 33iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 19,252iNaturalist 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).