#4818 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
White-lip Globe Snail
Mesodon thyroidus
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
📍 17174 Tierra Buena Dr, Plantersville, TX, US
📍 W FM Rd 1382, Cedar Hill, TX, US
📍 First Landing State Park, Virginia Beach, VA, US
📍 Newton, KS, USA
📍 Williamson County, TX
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Richard Coldiron · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Meghan Cassidy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Meghan Cassidy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © MC Barnhart · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Bob O'Kennon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 17174 Tierra Buena Dr, Plantersville, TX, US:© Clifton Ladd, C.W.B. · CC BY 4.0
- 7. W FM Rd 1382, Cedar Hill, TX, US:© bigbuggin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. First Landing State Park, Virginia Beach, VA, US:© relaxedorange · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Newton, KS, USA:© jeanw · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Williamson County, TX:© Dale MacLean · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Mesodon thyroidus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.
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.
- 10,948 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- White-lip Globe Snail
- scientific name
- Mesodon thyroidus
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Polygyridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 10,948
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Polygyridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 133953, Wikidata Q3074281, GBIF 5190878, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.