#4591 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

White Italian Snail

🇳🇱 Zandslak ·Theba pisana

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Justyn Stahl · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Peter Csanadi · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jenny Donald · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jenny Donald · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Noordwijk, Nederland:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
7. Noordwijk, Netherlands:© quandary · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Zeedijk, Terwolde, Gelderland, NL:© marcel_deventer · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Meijendel and Berkheide, Katwijk, South Holland, NL:© Katharine Khamhaengwong · CC BY 4.0
10. Meijendel and Berkheide, Katwijk, South Holland, NL:© Katharine Khamhaengwong · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Theba pisana , common names the white garden snail , sand hill snail , white Italian snail , Mediterranean coastal snail , and simply just the Mediterranean snail , is an edible species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

base stats

NL sightings 196iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 23,089iNaturalist 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

Spotted 196 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #23 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
23,089 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1774 (252 years ago).