#4740 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Garlic Snail
🇳🇱 Lookglansslak ·Oxychilus alliarius
📍 Gilze, Nederland
📍 4641 Ossendrecht, Nederland
📍 Vilcún, Vilcún, Región de La Araucania, CL
📍 Eriksberg-Håga, Uppsala, Suède
📍 Melbourne VIC, Australia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Francisco Welter-Schultes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Michael A. Voeltz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Claudio Maureira · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Loxley Fedec · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Loxley Fedec · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Gilze, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 4641 Ossendrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Vilcún, Vilcún, Región de La Araucania, CL:© nitsuga74 · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Eriksberg-Håga, Uppsala, Suède:© Mathieu Pélissié · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Melbourne VIC, Australia:© Reiner Richter · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
Oxychilus alliarius , common name the "garlic snail" or "garlic glass-snail," is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.
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 5 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,824 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Samuel Miller in 1822 (204 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Garlic Snail
- Nederlands
- Lookglansslak
- scientific name
- Oxychilus alliarius
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Oxychilidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 5
- sightings in Europe
- 63
- sightings worldwide
- 1,824
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,188
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1822 by John Samuel Miller
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Oxychilidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 127947, Wikidata Q1777239, GBIF 5190769, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.