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#4769 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Green Cellar Slug

🇳🇱 Groene aardslak ·Limacus maculatus

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
Green Cellar Slug, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © jwhwatt6 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Limacus maculatus , the green cellar slug or Irish yellow slug, is a species of slug native to the Caucasus and Black Sea coast. It has also been introduced to a number of northern European countries and Russia....

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 4,720iNaturalist observations

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.
  • 4,720 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Green Cellar Slug
Nederlands
Groene aardslak
scientific name
Limacus maculatus
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Limacidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
2,141
sightings worldwide
4,720
GBIF records in NL
70
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Limacidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 371870, Wikidata Q14638717, GBIF 4567599, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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