#4691 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Lobe Shell
🇳🇱 Schepje ·Philine quadripartita
📍 Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR
📍 34110 Frontignan, France
📍 Zeeuwse meren, 158_13_400, NL
📍 Plage du Prophète, 13007 Marseille, France
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Pascal GIRARD · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Xavier Rufray · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Antoni López-Arenas i Cama · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR:© Pierre Corbrion · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. 34110 Frontignan, France:© Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Zeeuwse meren, 158_13_400, NL:© Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Plage du Prophète, 13007 Marseille, France:© Miroslava MATEJČEKOVÁ · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Philine quadripartita is a species of sea slugs or sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs that has in recent times been referred to as Philine aperta in the North East Atlantic, but several recent studies studying anatomical traits such as the reproductive anatomy and DNA has shown that P. quadripartita and P. aperta are two distinct species.
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 16 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 159 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Lobe Shell
- Nederlands
- Schepje
- scientific name
- Philine quadripartita
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Cephalaspidea
- family
- Philinidae
- sightings in NL
- 16
- sightings in Europe
- 123
- sightings worldwide
- 159
- GBIF records in NL
- 542
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 482657, Wikidata Q14087560, GBIF 6520605, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.