#4661 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Atlantic Dogwhelk

🇳🇱 Purperslak ·Nucella lapillus

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Leonid Rasran · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © julievanroestel · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
4. © Heather · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Stephen Moores · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The dog whelk , dogwhelk , or Atlantic dogwinkle , scientific name Nucella lapillus , is a species of predatory sea snail, a carnivorous marine gastropod in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

base stats

NL sightings 27iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,573iNaturalist 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).