#4666 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Small Amber Snail
🇳🇱 Langwerpige barnsteenslak ·Succinella oblonga
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Monster, NL-ZH, NL
📍 Monster, NL-ZH, NL
📍 Oost, Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Noordwijk, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Eleftherios Katsillis · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Simon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Monster, NL-ZH, NL:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Monster, NL-ZH, NL:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Oost, Utrecht, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Noordwijk, Nederland:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Succinella oblonga is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Succineidae.
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 25 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 282 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacques Draparnaud in 1801 (225 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Small Amber Snail
- Nederlands
- Langwerpige barnsteenslak
- scientific name
- Succinella oblonga
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Succineidae
- sightings in NL
- 25
- sightings in Europe
- 182
- sightings worldwide
- 282
- GBIF records in NL
- 881
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1801 by Jacques Draparnaud
relatives· Succineidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 521091, Wikidata Q3200469, GBIF 4568253, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.