#4572 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Leopard Slug

🇳🇱 Tijgerslak ·Limax maximus

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

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

1. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Frank Vassen · CC BY 4.0
3. © bobbyfingers · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Clinton Duffy · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © mathias_dezetter · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © bobbyfingers · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Limax maximus (literally, "biggest slug"), known by the common names great grey slug and leopard slug , is a species of slug in the family Limacidae, the keeled slugs. It is among the largest keeled slugs, Limax cinereoniger being the largest.

base stats

NL sightings 751iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 79,060iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 751 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #4 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
79,060 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).