#4646 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Draparnaud's Glass Snail
🇳🇱 Grote glansslak ·Oxychilus draparnaudi
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what is it?
Oxychilus draparnaudi , Draparnaud's glass snail , is a species of small 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 35 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 12,408 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Henrik Henriksen Beck in 1837 (189 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Draparnaud's Glass Snail
- Nederlands
- Grote glansslak
- scientific name
- Oxychilus draparnaudi
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Oxychilidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 35
- sightings in Europe
- 1,082
- sightings worldwide
- 12,408
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,125
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1837 by Henrik Henriksen Beck
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Oxychilidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 226720, Wikidata Q1548204, GBIF 5190767, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.