#4759 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Milk Snail

🇳🇱 Getande melkslak ·Otala lactea

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

what is it?

Otala lactea , common names, the milk snail, or Spanish snail, is a large, edible species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae the typical snails. Archaeological recovery at the Ancient Roman site of Volubilis, in Morocco, illustrates prehistoric exploitation of O. lactea by humans.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 22,407iNaturalist 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.
22,407 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).