#4745 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Gestippelde knotsslak
Rubramoena amoena
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
📍 Highland, UK
📍 Moss, Norge
📍 Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
📍 Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, FR
📍 Plompe Toren, Oosterschelde, Nederland
📍 Onsoey, Ãstfold, Norway
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © elegaer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. Plymouth, England, United Kingdom:© Brenton Prigge · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Highland, UK:© elegaer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Moss, Norge:© Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Plymouth, England, United Kingdom:© Brenton Prigge · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, FR:© Pierre Corbrion · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. Plompe Toren, Oosterschelde, Nederland:© Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Onsoey, Ãstfold, Norway:© Heine Jensen · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Rubramoena amoena is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.
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 5 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 82 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Albany Hancock in 1845 (181 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Gestippelde knotsslak
- scientific name
- Rubramoena amoena
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Trinchesiidae
- sightings in NL
- 5
- sightings in Europe
- 65
- sightings worldwide
- 82
- GBIF records in NL
- 176
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1845 by Albany Hancock
relatives· Trinchesiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 521103, Wikidata Q50377881, GBIF 8846783, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.