#4761 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Chinese Mystery Snail
🇳🇱 Chinese moerasslak ·Margarya chinensis
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Emily Hjalmarson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Warren Dunlop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Lorraine Briddon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Ben Zerante · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © randyshonkwiler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © amr_mn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Quinn · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Chinese mystery snail , black snail , or trapdoor snail ( Margarya chinensis ), is a large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.
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.
- 10,974 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Chinese Mystery Snail
- Nederlands
- Chinese moerasslak
- scientific name
- Margarya chinensis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Architaenioglossa
- family
- Viviparidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 6
- sightings worldwide
- 10,974
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Viviparidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1672221, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.