#4777 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Red-mouthed Dog Winkle

🇳🇱 Roodmond rotsslak ·Stramonita haemastoma

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © David Renoult · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Luís Lourenço · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © George Manavopoulos · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Marcos de Vasconcellos Gernet · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Thessaly, Thessaly and Central Greece, GR:© MARIA SYNATIKA · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 20270 Tallone, France:© Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Thessaly, Thessaly and Central Greece, GR:© MARIA SYNATIKA · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Carrer la Barraca, Xàbia, Alicante, ES:© thehousebunting · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Stramonita haemastoma , common name the red-mouthed rock shell or the Florida dog winkle , is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,544iNaturalist observations

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.
3,544 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1767 (259 years ago).