#4695 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Lesser Bulin
🇳🇱 Donkere torenslak ·Merdigera obscura
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what is it?
Merdigera obscura is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae.
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 14 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,690 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lesser Bulin
- Nederlands
- Donkere torenslak
- scientific name
- Merdigera obscura
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Enidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 14
- sightings in Europe
- 1,428
- sightings worldwide
- 1,690
- GBIF records in NL
- 661
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1774 by Otto Friedrich Müller
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Enidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 105591, Wikidata Q3200072, GBIF 4566417, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.