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#4579 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

citrine nudibranch

🇳🇱 Bruine plooislak ·Pelagella castanea

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Antoni López-Arenas i Cama · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Yolanda Evans · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Georgina Jones · CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. 6. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © carel van der Colff · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. © Georgina Jones · CC BY-SA 4.0
citrine nudibranch, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0

base stats

  • NL sightings 311iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 624iNaturalist 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

  • Spotted 311 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #11 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
  • 624 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
citrine nudibranch
Nederlands
Bruine plooislak
scientific name
Pelagella castanea
class
Gastropoda
order
Nudibranchia
family
Goniodorididae
sightings in NL
311
sightings in Europe
539
sightings worldwide
624
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Goniodorididae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1471717. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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