#4620 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Ash-black Slug
🇳🇱 Zwarte aardslak ·Limax cinereoniger
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © H. Krisp · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Valuliso · CC0
- 5. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Michal Maňas · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Limax cinereoniger is a large species of air-breathing land slug in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. This is the largest land slug species in the world.
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 74 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 17,701 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Wolf in 1803 (223 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Ash-black Slug
- Nederlands
- Zwarte aardslak
- scientific name
- Limax cinereoniger
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Limacidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 74
- sightings in Europe
- 14,408
- sightings worldwide
- 17,701
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,361
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1803 by Johann Wolf
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Limacidae
#4572 📷 7Leopard Slug
🇳🇱 Tijgerslak
Limax maximus
LC 👀 751 in NL
#4622 📷 9Tree slug
🇳🇱 Bosaardslak
Lehmannia marginata
DD 👀 72 in NL
#4649 📷 9Yellow Cellar Slug
🇳🇱 Lichte aardslak
Limacus flavus
LC 👀 33 in NL
#4682 📷 10Striped Greenhouse Slug
🇳🇱 Spaanse aardslak
Ambigolimax valentianus
LC 👀 18 in NL
#4769 📷 10Green Cellar Slug
🇳🇱 Groene aardslak
Limacus maculatus
🌍 4.7k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 143291, Wikidata Q892046, GBIF 4567609, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.