#4758 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Decollate Snail
Rumina decollata
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Mark Kolanowski · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Thilina Hettiarachchi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © drjoehanson · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Oliver H. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © André Balças · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Mathieu Pélissié · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Nicholas Cowey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © RAP · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. © Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The decollate snail , scientific name Rumina decollata , is a medium-sized predatory land snail, a species of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae. It is a European species that has been introduced in a number of areas worldwide.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 23,701 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Decollate Snail
- scientific name
- Rumina decollata
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Achatinidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 6,776
- sightings worldwide
- 23,701
- GBIF records in NL
- 2
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Achatinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 125669, Wikidata Q834936, GBIF 2294129, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.