#4580 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Great Pond Snail
🇳🇱 Gewone poelslak ·Lymnaea stagnalis
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Gilberto Sánchez Jardón · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Francesco Santoro · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Ina Siebert · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Hans Zwitzer · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Kk · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Aiwok · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. © anonymous · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Peter O'Connor aka anemoneprojectors · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Lymnaea stagnalis , better known as the great pond snail , is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.
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 306 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #12 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
- 13,898 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Great Pond Snail
- Nederlands
- Gewone poelslak
- scientific name
- Lymnaea stagnalis
- class
- Gastropoda
- family
- Lymnaeidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 306
- sightings in Europe
- 10,374
- sightings worldwide
- 13,898
- GBIF records in NL
- 22,905
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Lymnaeidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61770, Wikidata Q911251, GBIF 2291253, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.