#4702 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Groot glasmuiltje
Marsenia perspicua
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Odemira, PT-BE, PT
📍 Northern Ireland, UK
📍 Reserva del Toro, Illes Balears
📍 Strangford Lough, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, GB
📍 Menai Strait, Menai Bridge, Wales, GB
📍 Ards, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
📍 Seaview Primary School, Glenarm, Ballymena BT44 0AA, UK
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pierre Corbrion · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Odemira, PT-BE, PT:© jmneiva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Northern Ireland, UK:© Rebekah Bajkó · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Reserva del Toro, Illes Balears:© Antoni López-Arenas i Cama · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Strangford Lough, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, GB:© Steven Farquhar · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Menai Strait, Menai Bridge, Wales, GB:© Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Ards, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom:© Rhonda Ridley · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Seaview Primary School, Glenarm, Ballymena BT44 0AA, UK:© chrishamill · CC BY-NC 4.0
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 13 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 381 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Groot glasmuiltje
- scientific name
- Marsenia perspicua
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Littorinimorpha
- family
- Velutinidae
- sightings in NL
- 13
- sightings in Europe
- 168
- sightings worldwide
- 381
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1452047. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.