#4650 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Kentish Nun Snail

🇳🇱 Grote karthuizerslak ·Monacha cantiana

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jon J. Laysell · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Gargominy O. · CC BY 4.0
3. © Maxime Bodhuin · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © B. Phalan · CC BY 4.0
5. © Philip Mark Osso · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © bryn_evans · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 18,, Cruquiushaven 17, 2102 LX Heemstede, Netherlands:© Milo "Bulle" van Loon · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
9. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. Weesp, Dammerweg/Spiegelweg, 1383 HT Weesp, Nederland:© errabee · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Monacha cantiana , common name the " Kentish snail " or " Kentish garden snail ", is a species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

base stats

NL sightings 33iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,289iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).