#4601 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Otter shell

🇳🇱 Otterschelp ·Lutraria lutraria

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jan Johan ter Poorten · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Lmbuga · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Stephen James McWilliam · CC0
4. © Stephen James McWilliam · CC0
5. © Desmond Ney · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Paucabot · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. IJmuiden, Nederland:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
8. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
9. The Hague, Netherlands:© Tony Gilbert · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Wassenaar, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Lutraria lutraria is a species of large marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae. Its common names include the otter shell and the common otter shell . It occurs in coastal regions of the north east Atlantic Ocean where it lives buried in the sand.

base stats

NL sightings 132iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,591iNaturalist 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

Spotted 132 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #33 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
1,591 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).