#4710 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Minute Aeolis
🇳🇱 Plompe knuppelslak ·Nudibranchus exiguus
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Lyngsbo Strand
📍 Beverly, MA, USA
📍 Gylte, Drøbak, Norway
📍 Cape Elizabeth, ME, USA
📍 Gylte, Drøbak, Norway
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Tine Kinn Kvamme · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Tine Kinn Kvamme · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © unorthodox_sketch · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Lyngsbo Strand:© Klaus Kevin Kristensen · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Beverly, MA, USA:© Alex Shure · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Gylte, Drøbak, Norway:© Tine Kinn Kvamme · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Cape Elizabeth, ME, USA:© Jeff Goddard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Gylte, Drøbak, Norway:© Tine Kinn Kvamme · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Nudibranchus exiguus is a species of small sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.
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
- Spotted 11 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 371 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Minute Aeolis
- Nederlands
- Plompe knuppelslak
- scientific name
- Nudibranchus exiguus
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Eubranchidae
- sightings in NL
- 11
- sightings in Europe
- 149
- sightings worldwide
- 371
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Eubranchidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1685776, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.