#4793 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Spanish Snail

Otala punctata

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

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

1. © Xvazquez · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Xvazquez · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Carles Pastor · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Roberto Guller · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Roberto Godoy · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Mattia Menchetti · CC BY 4.0
7. © 103917170835602529469 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
9. © Ariel Cabrera Foix · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
10. © Pablo Preliasco · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Otala punctata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae. They are prepared in a typical dish in South Spain, "cabrillas", cooked in spicy tomato sauce.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,225iNaturalist 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.
2,225 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).