#4845 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Lewis's Moon Snail
Neverita lewisii
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Charlotte Seid · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Femorale · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © rlacroix · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Alex Heyman · CC0
- 5. © KJ · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Morton Jonuschat · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Wendy Feltham · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Zach Hawn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Sara Thiebaud · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Warren Cronan · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Neverita lewisii (previously known as Polinices lewisii , Lunatia lewisii , Euspira lewisii ), common name Lewis's moon snail , is a species of large operculated sea snail. It is a predatory marine gastropod in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. Traditionally, this species was assigned to either the genus Lunatia , the genus Polinices or the genus Euspira . Recently, it was assigned to the genus Neverita based on molecular data.
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.
- 6,941 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Augustus Addison Gould in 1847 (179 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lewis's Moon Snail
- scientific name
- Neverita lewisii
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Littorinimorpha
- family
- Naticidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,941
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1847 by Augustus Addison Gould
relatives· Naticidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 447427, Wikidata Q13895385, GBIF 7932770, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.