#4803 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
African Giant Snail
🇳🇱 Grote agaatslak ·Lissachatina fulica
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
📍 Hunters Green, Tampa, FL 33647, USA
📍 Big Pine Key, Big Pine Key, FL, US
📍 Carmichael, Trinidad and Tobago
📍 Puyo, Ecuador
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © PK Yeung · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pournima Shinde · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © irmel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © 桃子 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © 辰語 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © cheewapanavet2025 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Hunters Green, Tampa, FL 33647, USA:© abboud_d_913 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Big Pine Key, Big Pine Key, FL, US:© David Jeffrey Ringer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Carmichael, Trinidad and Tobago:© Saifudeen Muhammad · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Puyo, Ecuador:© Job Mayna unkuch · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Lissachatina fulica is a species of large land snail that belongs in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae....
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.
- 52,544 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Edward Bowdich in 1822 (204 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- African Giant Snail
- Nederlands
- Grote agaatslak
- scientific name
- Lissachatina fulica
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Achatinidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 52,544
- GBIF records in NL
- 28
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1822 by Thomas Edward Bowdich
relatives· Achatinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 502885, Wikidata Q103781974, GBIF 8790531, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.