#4637 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Peppery Furrow Shell
🇳🇱 Platte slijkgaper ·Scrobicularia plana
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Katrin Simon · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Arian · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Deneb Ortigosa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Steve · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © filvad · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Scrobicularia plana , the peppery furrow shell , is a bivalve mollusc belonging to the family Semelidae.
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 46 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 915 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Emanuel Mendes da Costa in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Peppery Furrow Shell
- Nederlands
- Platte slijkgaper
- scientific name
- Scrobicularia plana
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Cardiida
- family
- Semelidae
- sightings in NL
- 46
- sightings in Europe
- 642
- sightings worldwide
- 915
- GBIF records in NL
- 7,943
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758 by Emanuel Mendes da Costa
relatives· Semelidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 210232, Wikidata Q2477453, GBIF 5189062, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.