#4791 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Leopard Sea Slug

🇳🇱 Luipaardslak ·Peltodoris atromaculata

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

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

1. © jim-anderson · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © jlloret · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © jome jome · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Waielbi · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Pico, Portogallo:© Rino · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 98035 Naxos, Messina, Italien:© Susanne Spindler · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Ilha de São Miguel, Portugal:© Ana Ferro · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. South Aegean, Aegean, GR:© Nicolas Lagière · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Savona, Liguria, IT:© miles-parisi · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 17496 Colera, Gérone, Espagne:© Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Peltodoris atromaculata is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,520iNaturalist 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.
2,520 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Rudolph Bergh in 1880 (146 years ago).