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#4812 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Pacific Sideband

Monadenia fidelis

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Kate Turner · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Femorale · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Phil Liff-Grieff · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  4. 4. © Liam O'Brien · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Tom Lawson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  6. 6. © dedrekon · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Mike · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. © Tom Lawson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  9. 9. © Kevin Toomer · CC BY-NC 4.0
Pacific Sideband, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © Kate Turner · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Monadenia fidelis , common name the Pacific sideband , is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Monadeniidae.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 14,280iNaturalist observations

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.
  • 14,280 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Pacific Sideband
scientific name
Monadenia fidelis
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Xanthonychidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
14,280
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 62803, Wikidata Q3074496, GBIF 5191176, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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