#4657 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Reddish Aegopinella
🇳🇱 Bruine blinkslak ·Retinella nitidula
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 4121 KK Everdingen, Nederland
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Wageningen, Nederland
📍 6325 Berg en Terblijt, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 4121 KK Everdingen, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Wageningen, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 6325 Berg en Terblijt, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Aegopinella nitidula (previously known as Retinella nitidula ), common name the waxy glass snail , is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae, 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 30 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,189 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Reddish Aegopinella
- Nederlands
- Bruine blinkslak
- scientific name
- Retinella nitidula
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Gastrodontidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 30
- sightings in Europe
- 473
- sightings worldwide
- 1,189
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Gastrodontidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1713847, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.