#4713 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Rayed Glass snail
🇳🇱 Ammonshorentje ·Perpolita hammonis
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Kleisti, Kurzeme District, Riga, Latvia
📍 Principado de Asturias, ES-AS-AS, ES
📍 Slampe parish, Tukums Municipality, Latvia
📍 77515 Faremoutiers, Frankrijk
📍 10200 Soulaines-Dhuys, France
📍 22950 Trégueux, France
📍 Nant Sec, 74740 Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, France
📍 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © lizard--o_o · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pekka Malinen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. Kleisti, Kurzeme District, Riga, Latvia:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 4. Principado de Asturias, ES-AS-AS, ES:© lizard--o_o · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Slampe parish, Tukums Municipality, Latvia:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 6. 77515 Faremoutiers, Frankrijk:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 10200 Soulaines-Dhuys, France:© Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 22950 Trégueux, France:© jfb22 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Nant Sec, 74740 Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, France:© cloclo53 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Berlin, Berlin, Germany:© Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Nesovitrea hammonis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae.
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 10 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 364 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Rayed Glass snail
- Nederlands
- Ammonshorentje
- scientific name
- Perpolita hammonis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Gastrodontidae
- sightings in NL
- 10
- sightings in Europe
- 175
- sightings worldwide
- 364
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,462
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Gastrodontidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 974196, Wikidata Q106253727, GBIF 9371518, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.